Yarshater, Ehsan, 1920-2018

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Name (Latin)
Yarshater, Ehsan, 1920-2018
Name (Arabic)
يارشاطر، احسان، 1920-2018
Other forms of name
Yar-Shater, Ehsan, 1920-2018
Yārshātir, Ihsān Allāh, 1920-2018
Yar-e-Shater, Ehsan, 1920-2018
Yar-I-Shatir, Ehsan
Yarshater, Ehsan
يار شاطر، احسان، 1920-2018
Date of birth
1920
Date of death
2018
Associated country
Iran
United States
Field of activity
Iran--Civilization
Occupation
College teachers
Historians
Iranologists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 79043650
Wikidata: Q924275
Library of congress: n 79059308
Sources of Information
  • New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 19, 2018(in obituary published Sept. 18: Ehsan Yarshater; b. Ehsan Ollah Yarshater, Apr. 3, 1920, Hamadan, Iran; moved to New York in 1961; d. Sept. 2, Fresno, Calif., aged 98; eminent Iranian historian who founded and edited the Encyclopedia Iranica, a magnum opus of Iranian history and culture that helped transform the modern understanding of Persian civilization)
  • Avicenna.Tarjame-ye Fārsi-ye eshārāt va ... 1953.
  • Encyclopædia Iranica, 1983- :cover (Ehsan Yarshater)
  • Persian literature, c1987:CIP t.p. (Ehsan Yarshater; Columbia Univ.)
  • Dir. of Amer. sch., 1982(Yar-Shater, Ehsan; b. Hamadan, Iran, Apr. 3, 1920; Dept. of Middle East Lang. & Cult., Columbia Univ.)
  • Dāstānhā-yi Īrān-i bāstān, 1958:t.p. (Iḥsān Yār Shāṭir) added t.p. (Ehsan Yar-e-Shater [in rom.])
  • Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Apr. 22, 2010(Ehsan O(llah) Yar-Shater; b. Apr. 3, 1920, Hamadan, Persia; University of London, Ph. D., 1960; Columbia University, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies, 1961-; director of Iran Center, 1961-; pseudonym: Rahsepar (Naqqashi-ye Novin, 1965-66))
  • شعر فارسى در عهد شاهرخ, ١٣٣٤[ش]: