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Konstantine Gamsakhurdia

Died in 1975

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, born in 1893 in Abasha in Mingrelia, the son of a noble landowner, passed his baccalaureate at the Georgian gymnasium in Kutaisi in 1911, then studied in Germany, at Königsberg, Leipzig and Berlin, where he defended his doctorate in 1918. Interned as a Russian subject in the Bavarian camp of Traunstein, he owed his release to Thomas Mann's circle. Attaché of independent Georgia in Berlin, he taught German literature in Tbilisi, from where the 1924 uprising drove him out, and he was then deported to the Solovki islands. He received the Rustaveli Prize in 1965 and died in Tbilisi in 1975.

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