Georgia: The Georgian Ministry of Culture and Sports honors Iakob Gogebashvili’s greatest national treasure and immortal name. On October 27, 184 years have passed since his birth.
The 184th anniversary of Iakob Gogebashvili’s birth was celebrated in Variani. Traditionally, on October 27, Iacob Gogegbashvili’s House-Museum hosts the public holiday “Jacoboba.”
Iakob Gogebashvili is the founder of Georgian scientific pedagogy, Georgian children’s literature, the society that spreads reading and writing among Georgians, and public schools.
He left us with children’s tales and the richest publicity that fills the tribes. Of course, his patriotism will not end even with these great deeds. The salvation of the Georgian language and the development of national education were primarily determined by the school textbooks it created.
Essenia: “Georgian language alphabet and the first reading book for Pupils,” “Nature’s Door” and the Crown of the Life and Work of the Great Erskatsi – “Mother Tongue,” a book which won first place at the World Exhibition of Alphabet Textbooks.
It is worth noting that Iacob Gogebashvili’s method of composing the alphabet manual has been declared a monument of intangible cultural heritage.
Iakob Gogebashvili
Iakob Gogebashvili, a great Georgian teacher, scientist, and public figure, was born on October 27, 1840, in the village of Variani, Gori municipality. He was a Georgian educator, children’s writer, and journalist who is considered to be the founder of scientific pedagogy in Georgia.
Through his masterly compiled children’s primer, Mother Language, which, in modified form, serves to this day as a textbook in Georgian schools, every Georgian has learned to read and write in their native language since 1880.
Iakob Gogebashvili died on June 1, 1912, at the age of 72. He is buried in the Mtatsminda Pantheon of Georgian writers and public figures in Tbilisi.
