- Tite Margwelaschwili
Tite Margwelaschwili ( _ka. ტიტე მარგველაშვილი, German: "Titus von Margwelaschwili") (1891-1946) was a Georgian philosopher and writer. He studied at the
University of Leipzig and did a doctor's degree in history at the University Halle-Wittenberg in 1914. His career in Georgia was interrupted by the Soviet invasion of theDemocratic Republic of Georgia in 1921.A member of the Georgian National Democratic Party and a staunch opponent of the
Bolshevik regime, he emigrated toGermany and quickly emerged as one of the leaders of Georgian political emigration, being elected a chairman of a sizeable Georgian émigré colony inBerlin . He lectured philosophy andOriental studies at the Frederick William University Berlin and worked for the Georgian émigré newspaper "The Caucasus". He suffered a family tragedy in 1931, when his wife committed suicide because she was homesick. [ [http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_460.html Giwi Margwelaschwili] . International Literature Festival, Berlin. Retrieved onApril 13 ,2007 .]After the end of
World War II he lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf in the British sector of Berlin. In December 1945 he was decoyed toEast Berlin by SovietNKVD agents who used the notable philosopherShalva Nutsubidze as an enticement. Arrested during his visit to Nutsubidze, Margwelaschwili was detained in a prison in the eastern part of the city, interrogated and tortured, deported toTbilisi and shot as a traitor in August 1946. [Goethe Institut Tbilissi: [http://www.goethe.de/ins/ge/prj/dig/ssr/giwi/deindex.htm Giwi Margwelaschwili: ein deutsch-georgischer Schriftsteller und Philosoph] ] [Giwi Margwelaschwili according to Irene Langemann: [http://www.lichtfilm.de/download/19_giwi.pdf Zwischen hier und dort] ] His son, Giwi, subsequently a conspicuous German-Georgian writer, was placed in a Soviet Special Camp at Sachsenhausen for 18 months.Works
*Titus von Margwelaschwili: "Colchis, Iberien und Albanien um die Wende des 1. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Strabo's". Phil. Diss., Halle 1914
*Tite Margvelashvili: "Der Mann in Pantherfell". in: "Georgica", London 1936References
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