St. Grigol Peradze Award
Since 2010, every two years the St. Grigol Peradze Award is presented to the people who in their scientific activity present the same values that St. Grigol Peradze. The prize distinguishes outstanding people, whose life’s achievements are a good example for others.
Saint Grigol Peradze (Georgian: გრიგოლ ფერაძე) (St. Priest Martyr Grigol), (September 13, 1899 – December 6, 1942) was a prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure, philologist, theologian, historian, and Professor of Patristics in the interwar period. On December 6, 1942, Grigol Peradze was killed in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz (Oświęcim) when he took the blame for the murder of a German officer to spare his fellow prisoners. Grigol Peradze was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church in September 1995
St. Grigol Peradze Award laureates
2010
- Henryk Paprocki, theologian, University of Bialystok
- Jan Malicki dr. hc, University of Warsaw
2012
- Prof. Bernar Outtier, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
- Włodzimierz Lengauer, historian, University of Warsaw
2014
- Archimandryta Adam (Vakhtang Akhaladze), georgian clergy, professor, philosopher, poet
- Prof. Jan Braun, linguist, University of Warsaw
- Prof. Wojciech Materski, historian, Polish Academy of Sciences
2015
- Dr David Kolbaia, historian, University of Warsaw
2016
- Prof. Jost Gippert, German linguist, professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of J.W. Goethe in Frankfurt am Main
- Prof. Vakhtang Licheli, archaeologist, State University of Tbilisi
- Prof. Vakhtang Peradze, historian, University of St. Grzegorz Peradze
2017
- Ilia Peradze, chairman of the St. Grzegorz Peradze Association in Tbilisi
2018
- Prof. Gocha Japaridze, historian, orientalist, State University of Tbilisi
- JE Metropolita Andria (Gvazava) Patriarchate of the Georgian Church
