Featured Publications

Books

• Simone Arnhold und Nino Doborjginidze (Hrsg.), Current Research On South Caucasian Antiquity (Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes 28), 2025 Beier & beran: Langenweissbach
• Nino Doborjginidze, For the History of Religious Inculturation and the Myth of Monotheism in 18th-19th Century Georgia, 2025, Tbilisi: Ilia State University Publishing House
• Nino Doborjginidze, Tamar Cheishvili, Maia Damenia, Ana Chkuaseli, The Homiletic Heritage of the Catholic Missions of Georgia, Vol. 1, 2 (Lessons of the Holy Scripture in Georgian, Lezioni di Scrittura Sacra in Lingua Georgiana; Sermons in Georgian, Prediche in Lingua Georgiana), 2024, Tbilisi: Ilia State University Publishing House
• Doborjginidze, N., Cheishvili, T., Damenia, M., Cheishvili, A. Lexicographic heritage of Catholic missions of Georgia. Ilia State University Publishing House, 2023. (Within the grant project funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation).
• Nino Doborjginidze (co-author). Cultural traces of Georgians in Germany. Ilia State University Publishing House, 2019. (Within the grant project funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation).
• Translation of the Gospel of John, translation of Euthymius the Athonite. The text was prepared for publication according to ancient manuscripts: Z. Sarjveladze, L. Aleksidze, N. Doborjginidze, D. Lohtvadze, M. Machkhaneli, N. Shugladze, T. Tsopurashvili, M. Odikadze, ed. Mzekala Shanidze, Tbilisi, 2018.
• Nino Dioborjginidze, Linguistic-Hermeneutic meta-texts. Practical grammar and Hermeneutics in X-XIII century Georgian sources, Ilia State University publishing, Tbilisi 2012 (in Georgian)
• Nino Dioborjginidze, Language, Identity and Historical Concepts. An attempt to interpret sources of religious historiography. Nekeri-publishing, Tbilisi, 2011 (in Georgian)
• Nino Doborjginidze, Die georgische Sprache im Mittelalter, 320 pp. (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, Bd. 17), hrsg. v. Johannes den Heijer, Stephen Emmel, Martin Krause, Andrea Schmidt, 2009, Reichert-Verlag Wiesbaden (in German)

Articles

• Doborjginidze, N., Tatishvili, E., & Mataradze, N. (2026). Figurative Discourse on Translation in Medieval Georgia: a Sociocultural Perspective. Scrinium (published online ahead of print 2026). https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10146
• Tchintcharauli, T., Tsintsadze, N., Damenia, T., Kalkhitashvili, T., Doborjginidze, N., Sigal, U. K., Establishing Guidelines for MLU Measurement in an Agglutinating Language: An Illustration of Georgian, in: First Language 2024, pp. 1-27 https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241247930
• Doborjginidze, N., Damenia, T., Makharoblidze, T., Tsintsadze N, Tchintcharauli T, Kalkhitashvili T. Argument Marking and Verbal Agreement in the Speech of Georgian Children. Languages. 2022; 7(4):314. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040314
• Doborjginidze, N., Generic Concepts and Stereotypes of Medieval Georgian Historiography. Amirav, Hagit, et al., editors. Christian Historiography between Empires, 4th-8th Centuries.Vol.23. Peeters Publishers, 2021, pp.67-80. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2crj2c1
• Doborjginidze, N., Tilmann, K. EREKLE II (1720-1798). GOES GLOBAL: Zwischen Aufklärung, Wissenstransfer und strukturellen Reformen in Georgien ab den 1750er Jahren, იხ. From Florence to Goa and Beyond. Essays in early modern global history in honor of Jorge Flores, European University Institute, 2021, pp. 145-175.
• Doborjginidze, N., Mataradze, N., & Tatishvili, E. Medieval Translation in the Light of the Polysystem and Rewriting Theories, Scrinium, 17(1), 2021: 92-109. https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-BJA10030
• Doborjginidze, N., The context of the creation of old Georgian script]. Tamaz Gamkrelidze 90, National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, 2020, p. 62-79
• Doborjginidze, N., Medieval Georgian Projection of Religious Historiography of Late Antiquity: Mapping of Biblical peoples (Tabula linguarum et populorum), Scrinium, 15, Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography, Brill, 2019: 239-255.
• Doborjginidze, N., Digital documentation projects of the old Georgian textual heritage, Collection: Elene Metreveli 100, Tbilisi, Korneli Kekelidze National Manuscript Center, 2018: 94-110
• Doborjginidze, N. Historical Aspects of Modernity in Georgia. Modernization in Georgia, ed. by G. Zedania,  Peterlang, 2018: 69-88
• Nino Doborjginidze, Generic Concepts/Stereotypes of Medieval Georgian Historiography, in: H. Amirav, C. Hoogerwerf & I. Perczel (eds.), Christian Historiography Between Empires, 4th-8th Centuries (Late Antique History and Religion 18), 2017, Leuven: Peeters
• Doborjginidze, N. Le Missioni cattoliche di Georgia nel period di Russificazione. ROMA E I GEORGIANI (CULTURA Studium 109), Roma: Studium Editioni, 2017: 212-231
• Nino Doborjginidze, Religious Inculturation and Problems of Social History of the Georgian Language, in: Philalethes: Collected Studies Dedicated to the 135th Anniversary of Shalva Nutsubidze (1888–1969), 2014, Cornelia Horn and Basil Lourié (ed.), pp. 136-157, Leiden-Boston: Brill Publishers
• Nino Doborjginidze, Zur textkritischen Methode georgischer Übersetzer aus Antiochia: Die Problematik von Einleitung, Text und Textempfänger, in: „Le Muséon“, Revue d’ Études Orientales, 124 Nr. 3-4, 2011, Louvain-La-Neuve
• Nino Doborjginidze, Die Übersetzungen der Werke des Gregor von Nazianz und die Entwicklung der georgischen Begriffssprache, in: Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca (CCCN, Corpus Nazianzemum) 121 (2010), pp. 291–334. Brepols.
• Nino Doborjginidze, Einige Fragestellungen zur Herausbildung von Schriftsprachen im christlichen Osten am Beispiel des Georgischen, in: „Le Muséon“, Revue d’ Études Orientales, 121, Nr. 3-4 (2008), pp. 353-371, Louvain-La-Neuve

Featured Online Publications:

• Georgian Language Corpus: http://corpora.iliauni.edu.ge/
• Epigraphic Corpus of Georgia http://epigraphy.iliauni.edu.ge/
• Prosopographic database of the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians https://society.iliauni.edu.ge/
• Prosopographic database of the 20^th century Georgia http://prosopography.iliauni.edu.ge/
• Cultural traces of Georgians in Germany. Prosopographic database https://qakuna.iliauni.edu.ge/ka
•  Prosopographic database of Catholic missions of Georgia, https://missio.iliauni.edu.ge/ka

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