About Nino Sakvarelidze

  • 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)
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