დიმიტრი ყიფიანი და იმდროინდელი საანბანე სახელმძღვანელოები

Abstract

Dimitri Kipiani, a well-known 19th-century public fi gure, took an active part in the formation of a national school. In the 50s, he was the head of the Georgian Language Department at the Committee for Compiling Textbooks. The archives of the given period have preserved his extremely critical reviews on the ABC textbooks compiled by Vartanov and I. Kereselidze. By contrast, D. Kipiani’s attitude towards Iacob Gogebashvili’s Mother Tongue (1876) is quite diff erent; he regards Mother Tongue as the best textbook. Kipiani’s valuable suggestions were taken into consideration by the author in the second edition of the book.