Honorary Doctors

The newly founded Tbilisi State University elected the first honorary doctor in the very first semester on March 15, 1918. The professors’ Board awarded and outstanding Russian scientist Nikodim Kondakov the title of Honorary Member of the University (1844-1925).

So far more than seventy outstanding public figures and noted scientists have been awarded Tbilisi State University Honorary Doctoral Degrees, among them are:

1934	Felix Darrell – French Microbiologist
1966	Hans Vogt – Norwegian Kartvelologist, linguist Ananias Zajaczkowski – Polish Orientalist David Marshall Lang – English Kartvelologist
1969	René Lafon – French linguist, Kartvelologist
1984	Franz Bolk – German physician
1991	Gerd Hummel – German theologian and Germanist
1993	Julius Asfalg – German Kartvelologist, Orientalist Henry Haar – English biochemist Howard Aronson – American linguist, Slavist, Kartvelologist Günter Hotz – German mathematician
1994	Petro Kanonenko – Ukrainian philologist Husamettin Cindoruk – Chairman of Turkish Grand National Assembly George Shultz – American politician and public figure Boutros Boutros-Ghali – Secretary-General of United Nations Aleksandr Samarski – Russian mathematician
1995	Herman Albec – German economist Uve Hantschel – Dutch psychologist Petr Ulyanov – Russian mathematician Ralph Knipper – German lawyer Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani – President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Vakhtang Jobadze – American Kartvelologist, art historian Nikoalai Suvorov – Russian chemist Vladimir Kotliakov – Russian geographer David Adams – American neurophysiologist, founder and neuroethology Georgias Iakovu – Greek, Cypriot, public figure and politician
1996	Svetlana Chervonnaia – Russian ethnographer and public figure Heydar Aliyev – President of Azerbaijan Stanley Fischer – American economist Iuri Kudriashov – Russian biologist Horst Truk – German literary critic, theatre historian Verner Keller – German literary critic Árpád Bogsch – American lawyer
1997	Katherine Vivian – English Kartvelologist Suleyman Demirelle – President of Republic of Turkey
1998	Givi Margvelashvili – German writer Ikan Tafarn – Turkish businessman Hans-Dietrich Genscher – German politician and public figure
1999	James Hadley Billington – American historian, political scientist Harold Kuntz – German Economist Zbigniev Bzhezhinski – American political scientist Dimitri Shirkov – Russian physicist
2000	Koishiro Matsura – UNESCO Director General Gottfield Baschke – German chemist
2003	Ilia II – CatholicosPatriarch of all Georgia
2006	Vaira Vike-Freiberga – President of Republic of Latvia Göran Persson – Prime Minister of Sweden Peter Campbell – English biochemist Gunther Teubner – German lawyer Karl-Walter Iauch – German physician Rudolph Hopenfellner – German physician Daniel Hanley – American physician Werner Hacke – German physician Stefan Müeller – German physician
2007	Lech Kaczynski – President of Poland Toomas Hendrik Ilvese – President of Republic of Estonia Ian Braun – Polish Kartvelologist Claudio De Biasi – Italian public figure Karl Alexander Muller – Swiss physicist Muhaddin Kulakhov – Russian Caucasiologist Dieter Umbach – German lawyer Johannes Georg Bednorz – Swiss physicist Jean Robert Pitte – President od Sorbonne University
2008	Johen Zimmermann – German economist Victor Yushchenko – President of Ukraine Iolanda Marshev – Swiss Kartvelologist Ilham Alyev – President of Azerbaijan Serzh A. Sargsyan – President of Armenia
2009	Wolfgang A. Herrmann – President of Technical University of Munich Jost Gippert – German Kartvelologist Bernard Outtier – French Kartvelologist Winfried Boeder – German Kartvellogist Wolfgang Aulitzky - Director of the Salzburg Medical Institute Peter Häberle – Professor at University of Bayreuth Bernd Schuneman – Professor at University of Munich