# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/varia-kipiani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:30:19.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/varia-kipiani"
name: "Varia Kipiani"
slug: "varia-kipiani"
description: "Barbare \"Varia\" Kipiani was the first Georgian trained as a psychophysiologist and is recognized as a pioneering woman scholar of Georgia. Born into a noble family, Kipiani and her sisters were raised by her father after her parents' divorce. After graduating from St. Nino's School in Tbilisi in 1899, she taught in a school in Khoni for two years. Moving to Belgium, where her father had relocated, she entered the medical faculty of the Free University of Brussels in 1902. Unable to afford her tuition, Kipiani was mentored by Polish academic, Józefa Joteyko, who paid her school fees and allowed her to work in a laboratory. She wrote a paper titled \"L'ergographie du sucre\", which evaluated the use of sugar in alleviating fatigue. Her study won a silver medal from the Association des chimistes de France et des colonies in 1906. After completing her coursework in the medical faculty in 1907, Kipiani lectured at various universities and continued research with Joteyko on nutrition and fatigue. They jointly were awarded the Vernois Prize of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine in 1908 for their work on vegetarianism."
tagline: "Georgian scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Kipiani_in_1913_03.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-02-04"
deathDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump