Aleksandre Kartozia

Date and Place of Birth

8 January 1959

Professional Experience

Since 2025 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Federal Republic of Germany

Since 2014 Professor of German Language and Translation at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

2008–2013 Lecturer in Caucasus Studies at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

2006–2008 Researcher at the Institute for East European Studies, University of Bremen.

2005–2006 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

2004–2005 Head of the Department of German Philology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

1998–2004 Minister of Education of Georgia in the Government of President Eduard Shevardnadze.

1997–1998 Director of the National Library of Georgia.

1989–1997 Head of the Department of German Philology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

1988 Lecturer at the Institute of German Studies, Faculty of Western European Languages and Literatures, Tbilisi State University.

1986–1988 Research Associate at the Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics, Department of General Linguistics, Tbilisi State University.

1982–1986 Assistant to the Rector, Tbilisi State University. Teacher of German at the German School (Guram Ramishvili Gymnasium) in Tbilisi.

1981–1982 Translator at the Institute of Engineering Technology, Georgian Polytechnical Institute.

EDUCATION

1995 Dr. phil. habil.

1986 Dr. phil.

1981–1985 Doctoral studies in General Linguistics and Psycholinguistics under Prof. Dr. Guram Ramishvili at the Department of General Linguistics, Tbilisi State University.

1981 Graduated from Tbilisi State University with the qualification of “Philologist; Teacher of German Language and Literature.”

HONOURS

Cross of Merit on the Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2022)