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Alexander Mikaberidze (Template:Lang-ka, Template:Lang-ru; born 27 January 1978) is a Georgian lawyer, author and historian who specializes in Napoleonic studies, Russian history and 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>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1990, they returned to the Georgian SSR, which gained independence in 1991.<ref>Template:Cite web</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">Template:Cite web</ref>
Napoleonic studies
Mikaberidze is a specialist on Napoleonic studies and the Napoleonic era.<ref>Template:Cite news</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>Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite news</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 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>Template:Cite news</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
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- Template:Lang [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.
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External links
- Profile and bibliography — LSUS
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- Mikaberidze interview — The Fondation Napoléon
- Template:Ka icon Biography — National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
