Prof. Manana Tandashvili, Head of the Department of Cucasiology at the University of Goethe Frankfurt has been awarded the status of the honorable Doctor by the Academic Board of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. Prof. Manana Tandashvili contributed a lot for the development of BSU. Due to her input Summer School in Digital Humanities was established in BSU in 2012. Moreover, additional educational programme was created in the same direction in 2015, while in 2016 the Centre of Digital Humanities was established. The grant project “Lingvocultural Digital Archive” financed by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, is being implemented in BSU under the leadership of the famous linguist. The project aims at establishing Lingvocultural Digital Archive of the University as well as creating technological and methodological framework. Bilingual web-page DigiArchive has been already created in the frame of the project.
The Scientific work of Prof. Manana Tandashvili is related to language modeling and the issues of electronic documentation of language and corpus linguistics. In 1999 the researcher became Alexander von Humboldt scholarship holder in Linguistics. For two years she worked together with German Caucasiologists Oppgang and Jost Gippert on creation of the electronic version of the Udi Gospels as well as the issues of text grammar.
The famous scientist conducted lectures in Maximilian University in 1991—2001; she was invited to work as Head of the Department of Caucasiology at the Schiller University Jena in 2007-2008; from 2022 onwards she has been a permanent academic staff at the University of Goethe Frankfurt where she leads the Caucasiology in the Institute of Empirical Linguistics of the University. In 2010 Prof. Manana Tandashvili established the Linguistic Cycle of Frankfurt University, elaborated the modern teaching didactic scenario “24 hour study cycle” for Kartvelian languages together with Zakaria Purtskhvanidze and created the innovative platform of learning Georgian language in the University of Frankfurt.
In 2015 the scientist founded the Georgian Countrymen’s union “Forum of Georgian Culture” in the frame of which she established a Sunday School for Georgian pupils and was the head of it until 2013.
Prof. Manana Tandashvili was awarded the status of the honorable citizen of Tbilisi in 2011 for her contribution to the development of the German-Georgian scientific and cultural cooperation.
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