Ehsan Yarshater (1920–2018)
Auteur de The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods, Part 2 of 2
A propos de l'auteur
Ehsan Ollah Yarshater was born in Hamadan, Iran on April 3, 1920. He received a doctorate in 15th-century Persian poetry from the University of Tehran and a second doctorate in ancient Iranian languages from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. In 1958, he became afficher plus a visiting professor of Indo-Iranian languages and religions at Columbia University. Three years later he was named Columbia's first chairman of Iranian Studies. In 1968, he founded the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia. He founded and edited the Encyclopedia Iranica, a magnum opus of Iranian history and culture. He started the project in 1972 and retired as the editor in chief in 2017 at the letter K. He was also the editor of a 40-volume translation of the scholar al-Tabari's 10th-century history of the world and the founding editor of a classic multivolume series of Persian literature. He died on September 2, 2018 at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Ehsan Yarshater
The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods, Part 2 of 2 (1656) — Directeur de publication — 30 exemplaires
The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods, Part 1 of 2 (1983) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Oral literature of Iranian languages : Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic, Persian and Tajik : companion volume II to A… (2010) 7 exemplaires
The History of Al-Tabari: Prophets and Patriarchs (Tabari//History of Al-Tabari/Ta'rikh Al-Rusul Wa'l-Muluk) (2007) 4 exemplaires
A grammar of southern Tati dialects 2 exemplaires
Iran faces the seventies 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Yar-Shater, Ehsan
احسان يارشاطر - Date de naissance
- 1920-04-03
- Date de décès
- 2018-09-02
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Iran
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Hamedan, Iran
- Lieu du décès
- Fresno, California, USA
- Études
- Normal School
School of Oriental and African Studies, London (MA ∙ 1953)
University of London (PhD ∙ 1960)
University of Tehran (PhD|1947) - Professions
- professor
- Relations
- Latifeh Alvieh (wife)
- Organisations
- Columbia University
Encyclopaedia Iranica
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 108
- Popularité
- #179,297
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- ISBN
- 35