Nestan Tchkhikvadze
Senior researcherNational Centre of Manuscripts
Born 1958. Graduate the Faculty of Humanities of the I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (1982). PhD candidate dissertation entitled “The Old Georgian Versions of the Epistula Abgari,” (1994). Member of the Association for the study of Christian apocryphal literature (AELAC) Paris-Lozano since 1992.
Published 1 monograph and around 30 scholarly works.
Major research interests: study of manuscripts, medieval written tradition in the context of dialogue of cultures, preparation of scholarly and popular publications of old written texts, tendencies of medieval education.