Georges Charachidzé

Georges Charachidzé (Giorgi Sharashidze; ) (February 11, 1930 – February 20, 2010) was a French-Georgian scholar of the Caucasian cultures. His most important works focused on the history of Georgian feudalism, pagan religious beliefs of the Georgians as well as the Caucasian comparative mythology and the North Caucasian languages.

Family Georges Charachidzé was born into the Georgian émigré community of Paris. His father David Sharashidze (French: Charachidzé; 1886–1935) was a journalist and a member of the Constituent Assembly of Georgia before being forced to leave his homeland following the Soviet takeover of Georgia in 1921. Sentenced to death by the Soviet government, Charachidzé had moved to Paris, where he had married a young French teacher, who gave birth to Georges Charachidzé in 1930. Charachidzé taught Georgian at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales from 1965 to 1998. He served as the president of the Société de Linguistique de Paris in 1984. He was also a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.