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Ehsan Yarshater (Ehsanollah Yarshater) was born on 3 April, 1920 in Hamadan, Sublime State of Iran, is an Iranian historian and linguist (1920–2018). Discover Ehsan Yarshater's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 98 years old?

Popular As Ehsanollah Yarshater
Occupation Historian · linguist
Age 98 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 3 April, 1920
Birthday 3 April
Birthplace Hamadan, Sublime State of Iran
Date of death 2 September, 2018
Died Place Fresno, California, U.S.
Nationality Iran

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His wife is Latifeh Alvieh (died 1999)

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Parents Hashem Yarshater (father) Rohaniyeh Misaghie (mother)
Wife Latifeh Alvieh (died 1999)
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Source of Income Director

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1920

Ehsan Yarshater (, April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) 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.

He was one of the 40 editors of the Encyclopædia Iranica, with articles by 300 authors from various academic institutions.

He also edited the third volume of the Cambridge History of Iran, comprising the history of the Seleucid, the Parthians, and the Sassanians, and a volume entitled Persian Literature.

He was also an editor of a sixteen-volume series named History of Persian Literature.

1959

He had won several International awards for scholarship, including a UNESCO award in 1959, and the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Achievement in Islamic Studies from UCLA in 1991.

Lecture series in his name have been instituted at the University of London, and the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

Born in Hamedan, Iran, Ehsan Yarshater studied Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran and Iranian philology (Old and Middle Iranian) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London with Walter Bruno Henning.

1969

His University of London dissertation, elaborated and published later as A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects (Mouton, 1969), describes a series of Tati dialects spoken in the southwest of Qazvin.

He had published a number of articles on modern western Iranian dialects, notably Tati and Taleshi, and the Jewish dialects of Persian (including Lotara'i), and on Persian mythology.

His parents were Iranian Jews who had converted to the Baháʼí Faith, but he had no affiliation with the Baháʼí Faith as an adult.

2015

His Tehran University dissertation dealt with Persian poetry under the Timurid Shahrukh (15th century).