Mariam Lortkipanidze
Mariam (Marika) Lortkipanidze (; 28 August 1922 – 8 January 2018) was a Soviet and Georgian historian, specializing in the history of Georgia. Mariam Lortkipanidze was born in Batumi on 28 August 1922. She graduated from Tbilisi State University, Department of History in 1943. Her PhD thesis was "Emirate of Tbilisi" (1948). She became doktor nauk in 1964 and a member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in 1993. Publications. Most widely held works by Mariam Lortʻkʻipʻaniże: