Robert Pierpont Blake

Robert Pierpont Blake (November 1, 1886 – May 9, 1950) was an American byzantinist and scholar of the Armenian and Georgian cultures.

In 1918, on behalf of the Saint Petersburg State University, he arrived in Georgia to update the conflicting catalogues of the Tbilisi manuscripts and then to investigate various texts of the Bible.

He remained there and taught the Greek language and the Byzantine history until Sovietization of Georgian Democratic Republic.

As a volunteer he fought Russian invaders near Tbilisi at Tabakhmela in February 1921.

He also made an invaluable contribution to the study of medieval Georgian manuscripts many of which were revealed by Blake in Palestine and Mount Athos.