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| Native name | ივანე მაჩაბელი |
| Born | (1854-01-28)28 January 1854 Tamarasheni |
| Died | c. 1898 |
| Occupation | writer, translator |
| Nationality | Georgian |
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PrinceIvane Machabeli (Georgian:ივანე მაჩაბელი) (January 28, 1854 – c. 1898) was aGeorgian writer, translator, publicist, public figure, active member of the National-Liberation Movement, and a founder of the new Georgian literary language. He is also well known for his resonant translations ofShakespeare and for writing the opera of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin."
He was born into an old Georgian aristocratic familyMachabeli in the village ofTamarasheni nearTskhinvali. Machabeli studied inSt. Petersburg, inGermany, and inParis. Returning in Georgia, he was closely allied withIlia Chavchavadze, a leader of Georgian intellectual life of that time, whom Machabeli offered his assistance in all initiatives aimed at reviving Georgian culture and opposition to theImperial Russian rule. He served an editor in chief of the leading Georgian national magazinesIveria (1882–3) andDroeba (1883–5). Despite his preoccupation with charities, especially orphanages, and extensive journalism, Machabeli made Shakespeare his life's work. Although, he never visitedEngland, he produced, from 1886 to 1898, the brilliant translations ofHamlet,Othello,Macbeth,Richard III,Julius Caesar,Antony and Cleopatra, andCoriolanus, which to this day serve as the standard versions for the repertoire of theRustaveli Theatre. Machabeli left his apartment inTbilisi on June 26, 1898, and was never seen again.[1]
The museum dedicated to Machabeli is located in his native Tamarasheni, which lies in the ongoingGeorgian-Ossetian conflict zone. It was severely damaged, on July 23, 1997, in a blast allegedly organized by local Ossetian nationalists,[2] and completely destroyed after the2008 South Ossetia war.[3] A street in Tbilisi's Sololaki district is named after Machabeli. ThisWriter's House of Georgia is located on this street.
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