About Nino Sakvarelidze
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Place and Date of Birth: 05.03.1968, Tbilisi, Georgien
Nationality: Georgian
Civil status: married to filmmaker George Chkheidze, son: Simon Chkheidze, 14
Ecclesial Affiliation: orthodox (Orthodox Church of Georgia)
- Knowledge of Languages:
Georgian (mother tongue)
Russian (fluent)
German (fluent)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Italian
Spanish
Ancient Languages: Ancient Georgian, Ancient Greek, Latin, Old Slavonic
- Education, Scholarships, Fellowships:
1975-1985
Gymnasium 53, Tbilisi, Georgia
July 1985: Final examination
1985-1990
Study of Classical Philology, Byzantine Studies and Georgian Philology, Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi, Georgia
1987-1990
Ilia Tchavtchavadze-scholarship
August 1990: Graduation (Master of Philology)
Master thesis: Old Georgian Translation of Maximus the Confessor’s “Expositio Orationis Dominicae”
1993-1994
Program student in the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich (LMU): Fellow of „Sakartvelo-Gemeinschaft“ (Gemeinsame Deutsch-Georgische Stiftung), Göttingen
1994-1996
Study in the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
1996 - 2002
Study of Orthodox Theology at the Institute of Orthodox Theology of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
Short-time scholarships from the Greek State as well as from the Foundation of the Jesuit Order in Munich (Pater Michel van Esbroeck)
Studentship from the Cardinal Wetter-Foundation
Master thesis: Liturgical Function and Meaning of the Fourth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer According to the Patristic Witnesses 2002: Graduation (Master of Theology)
2003-2009
Postgraduate (doctoral) studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
2006
Fellow of Gertrud-and-Alexander-Böhlig-Foundation (doctoral scholarship)
2007-2009
Participant of the LMU-Mentoring – LMUExcellent for Junior Scientists (Mentor: Prof. B. Kleinschwärzer)
Doctoral thesis: The Old Georgian Reception (11.c..) of Dionysius the Areopagite’s Liturgical Commentary “De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia”
July 2009: Rigorosum (Doctor of Theology)
- Professional Positions, Research Projects:
1989-1990
Research project Old Georgian Translations of Maximus the Confessor’s Works, Gelati Corpus K 14, 12. c.. (cooperation between Korneli Kekelidze Institute of Old Georgian Manuscripts Tbilisi and Laga-Steel Publishing House, Leuven: preparing a critical edition with commentary (Prof. Michel van Esbroeck, SJ, L’Université Catholique de Louvain, Prof. Tamila Mgaloblishvili, Korneli Kekelidze Institute of Old Georgian Manuscripts, Lela Khoperia, Ani Chantladze, Nino Sakvarelidze, Korneli Kekelidze Institute of Old Georgian Manuscripts)
1997
Research project Coislianus 90 and the Old Georgian Corpus from Gelati, K 14 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (under Michel van Esbroeck)
1997-1998
DFG-research project Die Vermittlung des chalzedonischen Glaubens an die Georgische Kirche durch Maximos den Bekenner (under Cardinal Alois Grillmeier, SJ)
1999-2000
Research project Sergij Bulgakov: Sofija Bozhija (a Sergij Bulgakov Russian manuscript from Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris: preparing a critical edition with commentary (under Prof. Dr. Barbara Hallensleben, Fribourg (Switzerland) and Archpriest Boris Bobrinskoy, Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge, Paris)
1989-1993
Korneli Kekelidze Institute of Old Georgian Manuscripts, researcher
2001/2005
Institute of Old Church History and Patristics, Faculty of Catholic Theology of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, scientific assistant
2005
Institute of Liturgics, Faculty of Catholic Theology of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, scientific assistant (Dr. W. Steck-project: Amalar, Liber Officialis)
2005-2009
Institute of Orthodox Theology of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, scientific assistant
2007-2009
German Liturgical Institute (DLI=Deutsches Liturgisches Institut), Trier, scientific assistant (PPSt=Pius Parsch Studien-project, under Dr. habil. A. Redtenbacher)
Since 19.10. 2009
Institute of Old Church History and Patristics, Department of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology of the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria, university assistant, researcher and lecturer
- Other activities:
1996
Interpreter for Russian-German/German-Russian, Landeskirchenrat der Evangelischen Kirche Bayerns
2001-2004
Publishing activity at Buch Import-Export Firma Kubon & Sagner München (Slavica. Wissenschaftliche Bücher aus Osteuropa)
1996-1998
Social activity - International Red Cross-project Sternstunde. Hilfe für Kinder – Waisenhaus in Dzegvi, Georgien (G. Ströbel-project, Bavarian Red Cross)
- Courses at the University Regensburg, Germany:
WS 2011/12 and SS 2012
SE (geblockt) Alte Sprachen: Einführung in die altgeorgische Sprache (Lehrauftrag von der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Regensburg)