Frankfurt University gets Georgian studies cabinet
The university’s Caucasian studies department has been operating since 2002. Photo: Frankfurt Goethe University.
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A cabinet named after the iconic 12th Century Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli has been opened in Goethe University in Frankfurt yesterday to facilitate the study of the Caucasus.
The university’s Caucasian studies department has been operating since 2002 and provides students with a rich library on Kartvelian studies.
The Georgian and German officials opened the cabinet yesterday. Photo: Foreign Ministry press office.
Georgian Consul Levan Diasamidze, University Vice President and Professor Rolf Van Dyke and other officials held the opening ceremony.
To note, supervisor of the Caucasian Studies department professor Manana Tandashvili began collecting foreign translations of the poem titled ‘A Knight in the Panther’s Skin’ by Shota Rustaveli two years ago.
Illustration for the poem by Irakli Toidze. Photo: Georgian National Museum.
A total of 50 translations have already been registered in the library on Kartvelian studies.
The Knight in the Panther’s Skin is one of the main literary monuments of Georgia, and it attracts both Georgian and foreign readers with its unique plot.
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For the past week a photo of British model Richard Biedul has been actively shared online by Georgian users for his resemblance with Georgia’s well known, 12th Century poet Shota Rustaveli.
For the first time in 40 years a new English translation of the legendary, 12th Century Georgian poem The Knight in the Panther’s Skin by famous poet Shota Rustaveli has been released.
Residents of the Dutch city of Leiden go about their daily business as streets of their historical city are adorned with poems, among them a fragment from a medieval epic from Georgia’s national poet Shota Rustaveli.