Career
He is a graduate of Tbilisi State University with a doctors degree in Iranian studies. The Georgian researcher"s efforts were primarily directed to deepen relations between Iran and Georgia, especially in terms of cultural and scientific visits, and through the publishing of more than 200 scientific works in Georgian, Persian, English and Russian. In 1929, along with his entire family, he moved to Iran, and two years later, in 1931, Jamshid Giunashvili was born in Tehran.
In Iran, Jamshid"s father worked as an engineer and participated in the railway constructions across the country (Khorramabad - Andimeshk, Arak - Qom, Semnan - Shahrud) The Giunashvili family stayed in Iran up to 1947.
The Giunashvili family returned to Georgia in 1947, and four years later, in 1951, they were deported to Kazakhstan. Jamshid Gyvnashvyly started in 1956 his studies in the field of Iranian studies at the State University of Tashkent, and in the beginning of 1958 at the Tbilisi State University and the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, and continued his efforts focused on Iranian studies, for another fifty years of his life.
He has produced more than two hundred scientific-research works related to the studies of Iran in Georgian, Persian, English and Russian. Professor Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, former President of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in the case of Giunashvili being the ambassador for 10 years to Iran and being Georgia"s first ambassador to Iran;
"Doctor Jamshid, he"s not just an Iranologist and scholar, but he"s also is a career diplomat.
He has been for a relatively long period the Georgian ambassador in Iran, and has played an important role in maintaining and deepening relations between the two nations of Iran and Georgia.".
