Background
He was born in a village Tskhrukveti (Chiatura district of Imereti region in Western Georgia), in the family of Prince Giorgi Tsereteli.
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Education
In 1882 Tsereteli graduated from the Classical Gymnasium in Kutaisi, in 1898 from the Medical Faculty of the Kiev University (Ukraine).
Career
Before the 1926 he worked as doctor in Chiatura, Tianeti, and Kutaisi. In Kutaisi he taught hygiene in a Georgian Gymnasium. In 1898 he established the Clinic in Chiatura.
Since 1888 he was an active collaborator and author of the main Georgian newspaper "Iveria" of Ilia Chavchavadze.
In 1910s Tsereteli edited the Georgian newspapers of national-democratic direction "Samshoblo" and "Chveni Qvekana". In 1887-1893 he was editor of the Russian newspaper "Chernomorski Vestnik" in Batumi.
In 1917 he was one of the founders of the Georgian National-Democratic Party. On May 26, 1918 he signed the "Acting of Independence of Georgia".
Since 1926 Tsereteli lived in Tbilisi.
In 1926-1930 he was an Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian medical Journal "Jansakhkomis Moambe". Tsereteli died in 1937, in Tbilisi.
Membership
In 1904-1916 Tsereteli was a Member of the Georgian Social-Federalist Party. In 1917-1919 Tsereteli was a Member of the "National Council of Georgia", in 1919-1921 a Member of the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG).
