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Iakob Gogebashvili

Died in 1912

Iakob Gogebashvili was born on 27 October 1840 in the village of Variani, near Gori, into a family of priests. Educated at the ecclesiastical school of Gori and then at the Tbilisi seminary, he studied from 1861 to 1863 at the ecclesiastical academy of Kyiv, which he had to leave for health reasons. A teacher in Tbilisi from 1864 and inspector of the ecclesiastical school in 1868, he was removed from it in 1874 as politically suspect and from then on devoted himself to public work: primer, reading books, stories for young people, and schools. He died in Tbilisi on 1 June 1912 and rests in the Mtatsminda Pantheon.

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