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is | Translator Artist Calligrapher | |
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Birth | 1808 |
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Alexander Sulkhanishvili (Georgian: ალექსანდრე სულხანიშვილი) (born 1808, Tbilisi) was a Georgian translator and calligrapher of the 19th century.
In 1825 he rewrote the works of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani. He also spoke Russian, Persian and Turkish languages. In 1828 he translated from Persian to Georgian the work of XV poet Panah, "Bakhtiarnameh". From the 1840s Sulkhanishvili lived in Saint Petersburg. In 1839 he published a Georgian-French-Russian dictionary.