Sardion Aleksi-Meskhishvili
Sardion Demeter Aleksi-Meskhishvili (1814, Ruispiri – 1863) was a Georgian critic, translator, and military doctor. He studied at the Medical Surgical Academy in Moscow from 1832-1836, from which he graduated as a doctor and veterinarian. From 1840 he worked as a doctor in Telavi, Sighnaghi and Tbilisi. His critical writings and translations were published in the newspaper "Kavkazsa" and the magazine "Tsiskari" which published his letter "Ustari Antikritikuli" in 1861. There he defended his theory of the principle of division of the Georgian noise occlusive consonants into "triads".