Dimitri Uznadze

Dmitry Nikolaevich Uznadze (დიმიტრი უზნაძე in Georgian. December 2, 1886 - October 9, 1950) was a famous Georgian psychologist, philosopher and public benefactor, founder of the Georgian scientific school of Psychology, co-founder of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), Academician and co-founder of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Meritorious Science Worker of Georgia, Dr.Sci., Professor. Dimitri Uznadze was born in 1886 to a peasant family, in the small village of Sakara in the province of Kutaisi (Western Georgia). He was expelled from Kutaisi high school for taking part in the 1905 revolution. That year he went to Switzerland and then to Germany, where he entered the philosophy faculty of Leipzig University, graduating in...