About
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, born in 1879 in Tehran, was an Iranian linguist and lexicographer. He authored the Loghat-nameh-ye Dehkhoda, the largest encyclopedic dictionary of the Persian language, containing over 500,000 entries. During the Constitutional Revolution, he co-published the newspaper Sur-e Esrafil and wrote an influential satirical column. He served as a member of parliament, dean of the School of Political Science, and dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tehran. He also compiled a collection of Persian proverbs and translated Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws. Exiled to Europe after a coup, he returned to Iran in 1911. He is revered as the 'father of the Persian dictionary'.
* 1879-01-01 — † 1959-03-09
Major works
- Loghat-nameh-ye Dehkhodaencyclopedic dictionary
- Amsāl o Hekam (1932)collection of proverbs
- Dictionnaire français-persandictionary
- Traduction de L'Esprit des loistranslation
Key milestones
- 1907Co-published the newspaper Sur-e Esrafil during the Constitutional Revolution.
- 1924Became dean of the Tehran School of Political Science.
- 1956Died in Tehran and was buried at Ebn-e Bābūya.
Themes
Persian language and lexicographyPolitical satireConstitutionalismEducationTranslation
Sources: iranicaonline.org · catalog.hathitrust.org · franklin.library.upenn.edu