Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhodā (Persian: علیاکبر دهخدا; 1879–March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian linguist and lexicographer. He was the author of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language published to date…. more
Mirza Ali Akbar Ghazvini, known as Dehkhoda, the Persian literary scholar, poet, author, and a political and social critic, was born in Tehran circa 1879. He came from a traditional land-owning family in Ghazvin, but his father, Khan Baba Khan Ghazvini, had moved the family to Tehran not long before Dehkhoda was born and died when the boy was only nine years old…… more
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda was born in 1285 SH in Ghasem Ali Khan alley located in Sangelaj district. He is one of the great founders of modern prose style and famous scholars. He finished his education in Tehran and then, he traveled to Europe. After returning to Iran, Dehkhoda cooperated with Mirza Jahangir Khan and Ghasem Khan in publishing the Sur-e Esrafil newspaper. In addition to writing the basic articles and news and other subjects with his own signature in the 8th page of the newspaper, he also created some essays entitled as Nonsense or Fiddle-Faddle (in Persian: Charand Parand) with the Persian term of Dakho as his pen name… more
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Nosrat Mozaffari, Nahid. Harvard University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2001. 3011450…. more
he year 2016 marks the 110th anniversary of the Constitutional Revolution and the 60th anniversary of the death of Ali-Akbar Dehkhodā (d. 1956). Dehkhodā was a journalist contributing to the weekly social democratic paper Sur-e Esrāfil (henceforth SE) in 1907-1908… more