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'''Alexander Mikaberidze''' ({{lang-ka|ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძე}}, {{lang-ru|Алекса́ндр Микабери́дзе}}; born 27 January 1978) is a [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] lawyer, author and historian who specializes in [[Napoleonic studies]], [[History of Russia|Russian history]] and [[History of Georgia (country)|Georgian history]]. He is an associate professor of history and social sciences at [[Louisiana State University in Shreveport]].<ref name="lsus"/> 

==Education and career==

Mikaberidze was born in 1978 in [[Aktobe]], [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]], [[Soviet Union]], where his parents worked.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005046981.html |title=Mikaberidze, Alexander |publisher= [[Library of Congress]]  |accessdate=27 February 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.ru/1812/Library/Mikaberidze/index.html|script-title=ru:«Лев русской армии» |trans-title="Lion of the Russian Army"  |publisher=Museum.ru |author=Alexander Mikaberidze|accessdate=27 February 2015  |language=ru}}</ref> In 1990, they returned to the [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgian SSR]], which gained independence in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ka:ლექსანდრე მიქაბერიძე|trans-title= Alexander Mikaberidze|url=http://www.nplg.gov.ge/emigrants/ka/00000174/|publisher=[[National Parliamentary Library of Georgia]]|accessdate=11 February 2016}}</ref>

He graduated from [[Tbilisi State University]] in 1999 with a degree in international law. From 1996 to 2000, he worked with the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia]], where he handled human rights issues and relations with the [[Council of Europe]].<ref name="lsus">{{cite web|url=http://www.lsus.edu/alex-mikaberidze |title=Alex Mikaberidze  |publisher= [[Louisiana State University in Shreveport]]  |accessdate=27 February 2015 }}</ref>

==Napoleonic studies==

Mikaberidze is a specialist on Napoleonic studies and the Napoleonic era.<ref>{{cite news|script-title=ka:ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძის წიგნებით ამერიკულ უნივერსიტეტებში ასწავლიან|url=http://www.kvirispalitra.ge/2011-03-31-07-00-04/9549-aleqsandre-miqaberidzis-tsignebith-amerikul-universitetebshi-astsavlian.html|accessdate=11 February 2016|work=Kviris Palitra|date=29 September 2011}}</ref> In 1999, Mikaberidze was one of the founding members of the Napoleonic Society of Georgia, dedicated to the study of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras (1799-1815).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://napoleon.ge/about-eng.htm |title=About |publisher=The Napoleonic Society of Georgia |accessdate=27 February 2015 }}</ref> In 2000, he moved to the United States to devote himself to [[Napoleonic studies]]. Mikaberidze graduated with a Ph.D. in history in 2003 from the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at [[Florida State University]]. He has taught at  Florida State University and [[Mississippi State University]], and lectured on strategy and policy at the [[U.S. Naval War College]]. Since 2007, he has been at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.<ref name="lsus"/> 

For his contributions to Napoleonic studies, Mikaberidze has been elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]] of the United Kingdom. and awarded the [[International Napoleonic Society]]'s Legion of Merit Medal and [[La Renaissance Française]]'s ''Médaille d'or du Rayonnement Culturel''.<ref name="lsus"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Monaselidze|first1=Eter|script-title=ka:„კადნიერი“ ქართველი ახალგაზრდა, რომლის წიგნებით ამერიკის უნივერსიტეტებში ასწავლიან|url=http://www.sazogadoeba.ge/index.php?post_id=1349|accessdate=11 February 2016|work=Sazogadoeba.Ge|date=4 February 2014}}</ref>

Mikaberidze has been the author, editor and translator of several books and textbooks. His books ''The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815'' and ''The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon versus Kutuzov'' won the Literary Award of the International Napoleonic Society for 2005 and 2007, respectively. His latest book, ''The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History'', was published in July 2015.

He has translated two books so far by 19th-century Russian lieutenant general and military historian [[Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky]]: ''The Russo-Swedish War of 1808-1809, Vol. 1 & 2''  (2006) and ''The Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812'' (2002). Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky wrote four books on the [[Napoleonic Wars]] at the request of [[Nicholas I of Russia|Tsar Nikolai I]]. 

Mikaberidze penned a three-book series, ''Russian Eyewitness Accounts'', based on reports of Russian participants of the Napoleonic Wars.  He read more than 4,500 pages of Russian diaries, memoirs and reports to compile the final edition, published in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Archer Kent|first1=Kate|title=LSU Shreveport historian completes Russian war memoirs anthology|url=http://redriverradio.org/post/lsu-shreveport-historian-completes-russian-war-memoirs-anthology|accessdate=19 August 2015|publisher=[[Red River Radio]]|date=4 February 2015}}</ref>

Additionally he is the editor-in-chief of the periodical ''The Napoleonic Scholarship'' and an editor for the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era.<ref name="lsus"/>

== Notable works ==
* {{cite book|title=The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History|location=London|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2016|isbn=0-19-995106-3}}
* {{cite book|title=Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the Campaign of 1807|location=London|publisher=Frontline Books|year=2015|isbn=978-1-84832-762-7}}
* {{cite book|title=The Burning of Moscow: Napoleon's Trial By Fire 1812|location=London|publisher=Pen & Sword|year=2014|ASIN=B00OZ3HS2G}}
* {{cite book|title=Atrocities, Massacres and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia|location=Santa Barbara |publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2013|isbn=978-1-59884-925-7}}
* {{cite book|title=Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the Campaign of 1814|location=London|publisher=Frontline Books|year=2013|isbn=978-1-84832-707-8}}
* {{cite book|title=Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the Campaign of 1812|location=London|publisher=Frontline Books|year=2012|isbn=978-1-84832-635-4}}
*{{cite book |title=[[Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia]] |year=2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-337-8 }}
* {{cite book|title=The A to Z of Georgia|location= Lanham, MA|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield/Scarecrow Press|year=2010|isbn=0-8108-7207-2}}
* {{cite book|title=The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape|location=London|publisher=Pen & Sword|year=2010|isbn=1-84415-920-5}}
* {{cite book|title=The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon versus Kutuzov|location=London|publisher=Pen & Sword|year=2007|isbn=1-84415-603-6}}
* {{cite book|title= Historical Dictionary of Georgia|location= Lanham, MA|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield/Scarecrow Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-8108-5580-9}}
* {{cite book|title= The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815|location=New York|publisher= Savas Beatie|year=2007|isbn=978-1-932714-02-9}}
* {{lang|ka|ადამიანის უფლებებისა და ძირითადი თავისებურებების დაცვა ევროპის საბჭოს ფარგლებში: ადამიანის უფლებათა ევროპული სასამართლო}} [''Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms within the Council of Europe Framework'': [[European Court on Human Rights]]], ''Judge's Library'' Series. Tbilisi: GCI. 2000.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://lsus.academia.edu/AlexanderMikaberidze Profile and bibliography] — [[Louisiana State University in Shreveport|LSUS]]
* {{youtube|UlYg6wCsWnw|Alexander Mikaberidze, "The Battle of the Berezina"}} — [[CSPAN]] 
* [http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/interviews/files/481073.asp Mikaberidze interview]  — The Fondation Napoléon
* {{ka icon}} [http://www.nplg.gov.ge/emigrants/ka/00000174/ Biography] — [[National Parliamentary Library of Georgia]] 

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