Platon Ioseliani

Educated at Saint Petersburg Theological Academy, Ioseliani taught physics and philosophy at Tbilisi Theological Seminary and later served for the office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus.

His articles were regularly published in the Russian and Georgian press.

In 1849, with the support of Viceroy Mikhail Vorontsov, he made a state-sponsored trip to Greece and visited the medieval Georgian Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos.

Beyond that, Ioseliani was the first scholar to study the evolution of urban settlements in Georgia.

One of his last major works, that on the reign of the last king of Georgia, George XII (r. 1798–1800), was published posthumously in the Georgian magazine Iveria in 1880.