1. Jamshid Giunashvili was a Georgian linguist, Iranologist, researcher, author, and diplomat, having served as the first ambassador of Georgia to Iran for a period of ten years, from 1994 to 2004.
13 Facts About Jamshid Giunashvili
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Jamshid Giunashvili is a graduate of Tbilisi State University with a doctors degree in Iranian studies.
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Jamshid Giunashvili won the 2010 International Award for Book of the Year of Iran.
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The father of Jamshid Giunashvili was an engineer going by the name of "Shalva Giunashvili", the ninth child of an Orthodox priest, while his older brother was a prominent physician whom Soviet Union had labeled as an "enemy of the people", and was executed in 1924.
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Shalva's activities were not political, but the social and political conditions of the time in the Georgian SSR, in combination with his goodwill, and with his brother executed, Shalva Giunashvili was forced to emigrate from the Georgian SSR.
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In 1929, along with his entire family, he moved to Iran, and two years later, in 1931, Jamshid Giunashvili was born in Tehran.
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In Iran, Jamshid Giunashvili's father worked as an engineer and participated in the railway constructions across the country.
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The Jamshid Giunashvili family returned to Georgia in 1947, and four years later, in 1951, they were deported to Kazakhstan.
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Jamshid Giunashvili Gyvnashvyly started in 1956 his studies in the field of Iranian studies at the State University of Tashkent, and in the beginning of 1958 at the Tbilisi State University and the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, and continued his efforts focused on Iranian studies, for another fifty years of his life.
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Jamshid Giunashvili has produced more than two hundred scientific-research works related to the studies of Iran in Georgian, Persian, English and Russian.
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Professor Tamaz V Gamkrelidze, former President of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in the case of Giunashvili being the ambassador for 10 years to Iran and being Georgia's first ambassador to Iran;.
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Jamshid Giunashvili has been for a relatively long period the Georgian ambassador in Iran, and has played an important role in maintaining and deepening relations between the two nations of Iran and Georgia.
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Jamshid Giunashvili died on 21 January 2017 in Tbilisi, Georgia, aged 85.