Ehsan Yarshater
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 6 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 3,1920 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Hamedan |
| Iran | |
| Date of died | September 1,2018 |
| Died | California |
| United States | |
| Job | Professor |
| Writer | |
| Historian | |
| Books | General Introduction to Persian Literature: History of Persian Literature A |
| Modern Persian Poetry, 1940 to the Present: A History of Persian Literature | |
| A grammar of southern Tati dialects | |
| Persian Poetry from Outside Iran: The Indian Subcontinent, Anatolia and Central Asia After Timur | |
| Persian Poetry, 1500-1900: From the Safavids to the Dawn of the Constitutional Movement | |
| Hamedan, Iran | |
| Encyclopædia Iranica | |
| Diaries | |
| Education | University of London |
| University of Tehran | |
| SOAS University of London | |
| Notabl work | Encyclopædia Iranica |
| Place of burial | Kensico Cemetery, New York, United States |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 602009 |
Ehsan Yarshater Life story
Ehsan Yarshater was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of The Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. He was the first Persian full-time professor at a U.S. university since World War II.
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