Vasil Tsereteli

Vasil Tsereteli (ვასილ წერეთელი in Georgian. 1862-1937) was a distinguished Georgian physician, journalist and public benefactor. He was born in a village Tskhrukveti (Chiatura district of Imereti region in Western Georgia), in the family of Prince Giorgi Tsereteli. His brother was Professor Mikheil Tsereteli, a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor. His son Giorgi Tsereteli was a distinguished orientalist, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, his daughter Tinatin Tsereteli was also a famous scientist (jurist), a Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

In 1882 Tsereteli graduated from the Gymnasium in Kutaisi, in 1899 from the Medical Faculty of the Kiev University (Ukraine). Before the 1928 he worked as doctor in Chiatura, Tianeti, Kutaisi and Tbilisi. In 1928-1932 he edited a medical magazine in Tbilisi. In Kutaisi he taught hygiene in a Georgian Gymnasium.

In 1910s Tsereteli edited the Georgian newspapers "Samshoblo" and "Chveni Kvekana". In 1887-1893 he was editor of the Russian newspaper "Chernomorski Vestnik" in Batumi.

In 1917 Tsereteli was one of the founders of the Georgian National-Democratic Party. In 1918-1921 he was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG).

Tsereteli died in 1937, in Tbilisi.