1. Tedo Sakhokia was a Georgian ethnographer, lexicologist, folklore scientist, translator, opinion journalist and educator, Correspondent Member of the Academie de Reims and Foreign Correspondent Member of the Society of Anthropology of Paris.
105 Facts About Tedo Sakhokia
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Tedo Sakhokia attended classes in Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary, from where he was expelled because of illegal activities.
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Tedo Sakhokia was the leader of the Georgian Party, a political movement and co-edited the newspaper "Georgia" from 1903 to 1905.
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Tedo Sakhokia was arrested in 1905 for attempting to bring weapons into Georgia illegally.
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Tedo Sakhokia was the first Georgian figure who received specialized ethnographic education.
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Tedo Sakhokia worked closely with the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians.
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Timote, Tedo Sakhokia's father, was from Shkhepi and worked as a priest at St George's Church in Kheta.
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Tedo Sakhokia was born on 15 March 1868 in Kheta in Zugdidi Uezd.
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Tedo Sakhokia's family was regarded as wealthy and esteemed family.
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In 1872 Tedo Sakhokia returned to Kheta, but his family soon relocated to Sukhumi.
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Tedo Sakhokia's mother died in 1874 and Timote Sakhokia was left to raise four daughters and two sons alone.
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That's why Timote Sakhokia sent his son to priest Shio Iosava, with whom Tedo lived for nearly a year but still couldn't learn to read or write in Georgian.
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Tedo Sakhokia was admitted to the Martvili Spiritual School in 1877, but due to his lack of Georgian literacy, he was placed in the first preparatory class.
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Tedo Sakhokia lived in Ivane Odisharia's home, where Besarion and Giorgi Khelaia resided.
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Tedo Sakhokia was taught to read and write in Georgian by Besarion.
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Tedo Sakhokia was expelled from the seminary on 21 February 1886, based on his own statement about engaging in illegal student activities.
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Agronomy was a relatively common occupation at the time and Timote Tedo Sakhokia sent his son to study agriculture in another country on the suggestion of Antim Jugheli.
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On his suggestion, Tedo Sakhokia stayed in Geneva, studied French, and enrolled at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of University of Geneva.
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Tedo Sakhokia established close ties with Georgian students there while pursuing his degree.
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Tedo Sakhokia was compelled to return to Georgia after his father died in 1887.
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Tedo Sakhokia arrived in Tiflis in 1900 and agreed to work '"Tsnobis Furtseli" and "Moambe" from abroad.
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Tedo Sakhokia mailed Feuilletons four times a month on average from abroad.
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Tedo Sakhokia traveled to Paris in 1900, where he attended a World's fair.
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Tedo Sakhokia subsequently went to the High School of Anthropology in Paris, where he spent four years.
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Tedo Sakhokia was elected to the Academie de Reims as a Correspondent Member in 1902.
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Tedo Sakhokia worked in a variety of jobs between 1890 and 1894 to support himself: Worked as a forester, as a foreign correspondent in the industry of Nikoloz Ghoghoberidze, as a member of "Georgian Cooperation of Book Publishers".
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From 1895 to 1897 Tedo Sakhokia lived in Tbilisi and engaged in publishing activities of the "Georgian Cooperation of Book Publishers".
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Tedo Sakhokia became a member of the organization in 1892.
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Tedo Sakhokia secretly corresponded with Shio Aragvispireli, Vakhtang Ghambashidze, and others to popularize the group and recruit new members.
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Tedo Sakhokia was arrested on September 20,1894, accusation for communicating with Shio Dedabrishvili and participating with the "Liberty League of Georgia" and was sent to Kutaisi's prison the following day.
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Tedo Sakhokia was the leader of a political movement, known as the "Georgian Party", in Abkhazia, and with Antim Jugheli, Ivane Gegia, Grigol Kandelaki and others, was an outspoken opponent of Russia's russification policy.
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The activities of the "Georgian Party" and Tedo Sakhokia were soon investigated by authorities of the Russian Empire.
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The indictment took them four years to write but with the support of his friends, Tedo Sakhokia was able to flee to Europe.
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Tedo Sakhokia traveled to Italy in the summer of 1901.
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Tedo Sakhokia became a close friend with Archil Jorjadze after returning to France, and he assisted him with remembering the Georgian language.
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Tedo Sakhokia was a co-editor of the newspaper with Archil Jorjadze and Giorgi Laskhishvili and was involved in the unlawful distribution of it in Georgia.
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Tedo Sakhokia was sentenced to five years in prison and deported to Siberia by the Emperor's administration, but he assisted himself by emigration to Novorossiysk, where he secured a foreign passport, and then returning to Paris.
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At that time Tedo Sakhokia should have been a member of the party.
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In 1905, Tedo Sakhokia was ordered by George Dekanozishvili, one of the leaders of the Socialist-Federalist Party in France, to accept illegally smuggled weaponry from abroad and meet people in various places of the Black Sea.
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In 1906 Tedo Sakhokia married and began working as a secretary of self-government of Sukhumi.
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Tedo Sakhokia was released on bail while the Senate debated his case.
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Tedo Sakhokia was allowed to stay in Sukhumi and not leave.
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Tedo Sakhokia traveled in Samegrelo to gather ethnographic materials with permission of the Caucasus Museum, the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians and the Ethnographic Museum of St Petersburg.
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Tedo Sakhokia was given a fake passport and a paper granting him permission to return to Georgia by the latter.
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Tedo Sakhokia arrived in Tbilisi without incident and proceeded to Batumi, where he met his spouse and daughter.
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Tedo Sakhokia has lived in a number of European nations throughout the years.
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Tedo Sakhokia spent a short time in a Georgian Catholic church in Trabzon before traveling to Brussels via Marseilles and Paris.
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Tedo Sakhokia was assisted by his friend Paliko Kipiani throughout his stay in Belgium.
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Tedo Sakhokia worked as a librarian, in a weapon factory, in a chocolate factory, and a number of other jobs while in exile.
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Tedo Sakhokia arrived in England in 1910 as a representative of one of the Chiatura's black stone industries, where he spent a year.
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Tedo Sakhokia was allowed to return to Georgia by the Russian Imperial Court in 1916.
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Tedo Sakhokia retired from political involvement after the August Uprising in 1924.
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Tedo Sakhokia did not participate in the rebellion, but he backed the commanders and leaders and provided them with covert sanctuary.
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Tedo Sakhokia eventually retreated from political activity, abandoned his pedagogical duties, and devoted himself exclusively to the public and scientific realms once the revolt was suppressed.
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Tedo Sakhokia was elected as a chairman of the meeting.
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Tedo Sakhokia was the first who read the report and was outspoken in his opposition to Samegrelo's autonomy.
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Tedo Sakhokia's friends gave the French writer the Georgian version of his novel "Under Fire" and requested for assistance in getting the translator out of prison.
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Tedo Sakhokia was imprisoned from September 20,1927 - to October 13,1927, according to correspondence between him and his daughter.
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Tedo Sakhokia's fight to develop the Georgian Church, have services conducted in Georgian, and attain church independence was part of the fight against Russification policy.
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Tedo Sakhokia was close friend with Georgian Catholic monk and theologian Mikhail Tamrashvili for many years.
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In September 1917, Tedo Sakhokia was elected as a member of the Catholicos Council with Protoiereus Nikoloz Talakvadze, Pavle Ingorokva, Mikhail Machabeli, P Makhatashvili, Raphael Ivanicky and Christopher Kapanadze.
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Tedo Sakhokia extensively studied anthropology, then Georgian language, literature, ethnography, folklore, opinion journalism, lexicology, and other fields during his time in Paris.
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Tedo Sakhokia campaigned for the preservation of the Georgian language's purity, publishing Feuilletons and letters in journals and newspapers about various issues.
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Tedo Sakhokia returned to Georgia after emigration and taught French language at the Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary and then Georgian and French languages in the VII Gymnasium of Tbilisi.
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In October, 1923, Tedo Sakhokia resigned from his position as a teacher.
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Tedo Sakhokia was the first Georgian to obtain an ethnographic education.
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Tedo Sakhokia began working in Valerian Gunia's "Tsnobis Furtseli" in 1896.
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Tedo Sakhokia visited Samurzakano, Guria, and Adjara, among other places.
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Tedo Sakhokia traveled to Racha in 1898, but he misplaced his records and was unable to find it.
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In 1950 and 1956, Tedo Sakhokia published ethnographic articles and publicist ethnographic researches.
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Tedo Sakhokia was a collector of ethnographic artefacts in addition to anthropological study.
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In 1889, while working as a teacher in Kartli, Tedo Sakhokia became interested in collecting Georgian proverbs, imaginative phrases and lexical materials.
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In 1936 Tedo Sakhokia began organizing the materials, systematizing the definitions of terms and phrases, and classification of their origins.
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Tedo Sakhokia developed an interest in folklore at a young age, and his interest was piqued further while studying in the seminary by Georgian historian Tedo Zhordania.
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Tedo Sakhokia obtained rich folklore materials from the regions of western Georgia while gathering ethnographic materials.
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Tedo Sakhokia gathered oral histories, labor poems, ritual poetry samples, mythological narratives, and fairy tales, among other things.
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Tedo Sakhokia was a translator from Bulgarian, French, Italian, Russian and English language.
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Tedo Sakhokia translated "Clelia" by Giuseppe Garibaldi from Italian, as well as works by Voltaire, Emile Zola, Henri Barbusse and Octave Mirbeau from French.
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Tedo Sakhokia translated scientific books, such as Cornelius Borozdin's "Samegrelo" and "Serfdom in Samegrelo" from Russian.
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Tedo Sakhokia worked as a translator from Georgian into other languages.
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Tedo Sakhokia was an active member of the Georgian Culture Society of Amateurs.
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Tedo Sakhokia was elected as a full member of the Historical and Ethnographic Society of Georgia on April 27,1908.
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Tedo Sakhokia bought museum exhibits and anthropological items in the Akhaltsikhe-Akhalkalaki uezd and the Borjomi Gorge under the direction of the same society.
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Tedo Sakhokia was actively involved in the activities of the Writers' Union of Georgian SSR.
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Tedo Sakhokia was an active member of the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians.
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Tedo Sakhokia wrote a letter to Iveria in 1891 titled "For Whom Folk Art Loves" to address this problem.
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Tedo Sakhokia encouraged readers to provide Mingrelian oral tradition samples, such as fairy tales, shairs, proverbs, spells, poems, etc.
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Tedo Sakhokia requested that it be collected in Mingrelian language.
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Tedo Sakhokia routinely published letters, feuilletons, and other papers in journals concerning various regions of Georgia, as well as noteworthy events or concerns.
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Tedo Sakhokia supplied publications and newspapers with materials from other countries.
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Tedo Sakhokia published papers in Russian, English, French and Italian.
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Tedo Sakhokia wrote about agriculture and economy, describing the economic situation in Tsilkani in letters published in Iveria in 1892, harvest in Vladikavkaz, etc.
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Tedo Sakhokia often commented on contemporary events, such as the spread of cholera in Zestaponi and the battle to stop it.
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Tedo Sakhokia took it as a personal affront and filed a lawsuit against the editors.
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Tedo Sakhokia filed an appeal, and the case was reheard in the court, but the verdict was upheld.
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In 1901 Tedo Sakhokia wrote a unique letter in response to Ivan Vazov's letter "A Brief Overview of the Historical Life of the Georgian Nation," in which the Bulgarian writer gave information about Georgia and Georgians.
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Tedo Sakhokia participated in the Sukhumi board administration elections in 1903.
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Tedo Sakhokia was elected as a mouravi of the city, but his candidacy was rejected by the government, therefore Vasil Abuladze was elected in his place.
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The court discovered that Berens was dismissing cases without the agreement of the city councils, for which Tedo Sakhokia verbally attacked him.
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Berens eventually denied Tedo Sakhokia's guilt, bringing the case to a close.
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Tedo Sakhokia discussed the disagreement, reasons, and predictions between France and the Pope in the letter.
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Tedo Sakhokia was able to save his ailing wife and children thanks to the honorarium he received.
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Tedo Sakhokia was honored on the 85th anniversary of his birth as well as the 65th anniversary of his creative and literary career on April 18,1953.
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Tedo Sakhokia died at the age of 87 on February 17,1956.
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Tedo Sakhokia's collection titled "People of My Generation" was released in 1984 by Professor Solomon Khutsishvili.