Novorossiysk University, Geneva, Moscow University
Known for
Bacteriophages, Phage therapy
Scientific career
Fields
Microbiology
Institutions
Bacteriological laboratories in Trabzon and Tbilisi, Pasteur Institute
George Eliava (Georgian — გიორგი ელიავა; January 13, 1892 – July 10, 1937)[1] was a Georgian-Soviet microbiologist who worked with bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).
Eliava was born in Sachkhere. From 1909 to 1912 he studied medicine, at Novorossiysk University, continued his studies in Geneva until 1914, and graduated at Moscow University in 1916. The same year, he became head of the bacteriological laboratory in Trabzon, in 1917 he headed the bacteriological laboratory in Tbilisi. In 1918–1921, and again in 1926–1927, he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he met Félix d'Hérelle, the co-discoverer of bacteriophages. Eliava got excited about the potential of bacteriophages in medical applications, and brought the research (and, eventually, d'Hérelle), to Tbilisi.
In 1923, Eliava founded a bacteriological institute in Tbilisi on the basis of the laboratory he headed since 1921, to research and promote phage therapy. After his death, the institute was renamed George Eliava Institute in 1988. Since 1927, Eliava held the chair for hygiene at the medical faculty of Tbilisi, and since 1929 the chair for microbiology. In 1934, the Tbilisi Black Death Centre was founded and headed by Eliava.
In 1937, Eliava was arrested and (together with his wife) executed as a "People's Enemy", either for being an intellectual or for competing for a woman with Lavrenti Beria, chief of the secret police to Joseph Stalin.[2]
^"George Eliava". Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
^Osborne, Lawrence (2000-02-06). "A Stalinist Antibiotic Alternative". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
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ტერიტორიების სააგენტო". apa.gov.ge. Retrieved 17 December 2017. Agladze, G.; Eliava, L.; Komakhize, A.; Mazmanidi, N. (1998). "Biological Diversity of the Black...
about to submit a list of another 350 who were also to be shot, and Shalva Eliava, Lavrenty Kartvelishvili, Maria Orakhelashvili, wife of Mamia Orakhelashvili...
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San Marino in Georgia from 2000 to 2012. Georgian Orthodox Church: Saint George Golden Order [ka] France: : Knight of France's Legion of honour (31 December...
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982. ISBN 0-521-25950-9 (in French) Georges Mamoulia, "Les crises de la Turquie et Iranienne 1945-1947. L'apport des...
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Zhordania's proposal. To avoid clericalism, all religious signs related to St. George were removed. On March 21, 1919, he was elected as a chairman of the Government...
1985 – Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi Georgian Orthodox Church: 2003 - Saint George Golden Order [ka] 1999 – Germany: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic...
Committee of Human Rights and National Minorities. In 1995, he graduated from George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies and Defense Economics in...
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