Scientific Interests

History of Linguistic Ideas; Medieval Studies, Digital Humanities; Corpus Linguistics; Old Georgian philology.

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, 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.
• Nino Doborjginidze, Tamar Cheishvili, Maia Damenia, Ana Chkuaseli Lexicographic Heritage of Catholic Missions of Georgia, 2023, Tbilisi: Ilia State University Publishing House.
  
• Nino Doborjginidze, Oliver Reisner, Levan Tsagareli, Giorgi Kavtaradze, Cultural Traces of Georgians in Germany, 2019, Tbilisi: Ilia State University Publishing House.
• Nino Doborjginidze, Language, Identity and Historical Concepts. An Attempt to interpret sources of Religious Historiography, 2010, Tbilisi: Necker.
• Nino Doborjginidze, Linguistic-Hermeneutic Meta-texts: Practical Grammar and Hermeneutics in Georgian Sources of the 11th-13th Centuries. 2012, Tbilisi: Ilia University Publishing House.
• Nino Doborjginidze, Die georgische Sprache im Mittelalter (= Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients, Bd. 17), hrsg. v. Johannes den Heijer, Stephen Emmel, Martin Krause, Andrea Schmidt, 2009, Reichert-Verlag Wiesbaden.

Articles:

• Doborjginidze, N., Die altgeorgischen Katenen zu den Psalmen und anderen biblischen Büchern, in: Cordula Bandt and Reinhard Ceulemans, esearch on Psalter Catenae. Current Trends and Recent developments, pp. 145-174, 2024, published by De Gruyter
• 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
• Makharoblidze, T., Damenia, T., Doborjginidze, N., Tsintsadze, N., Tchintcharauli, T., Kalkhitashvili, T. Argument Marking and Verbal Agreement in the Speech of Georgian Children, in: Languages. 2022, 7(4):314
• 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
• Doborjginidze, N., Der Einfluss des Ammonios auf die altgeorgische philologische Praxis, in: Héritages platoniciens et aristotéliciens dans l’Orient et l’Occident (IIe– XVIe siècles) Actes du colloque de Tbilissi, juin 2019 Edité par Tiziana Suarez-Nani • Tamar Tsopurashvili in: Scrinium Friburgense B. 54, Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden
• Doborjginidze, N., Mataradze, N., & Tatishvili, E. Medieval Translation in the Light of the Polysystem and Rewriting Theories, in: Scrinium, 17(1), 2021: 92-109
• 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., 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, in: 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
• Doborjginidze, N. Le Missioni cattoliche di Georgia nel period di Russificazione. ROMA E I GEORGIANI (CULTURA Studium 109), Roma: Studium Editioni, 2017: 212-231
• Doborjginidze, N. 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
• Doborjginidze, N. 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
• Doborjginidze, N., 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
• Doborjginidze, N. 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 Digital Publications and Databases:

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

Extensive list of publications