Happy birthday to Professor Ehsan Yarshater (born April 3, 1920), founder and Editor of The Encyclopædia Iranica.
Professor Ehsan Yarshater
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Ehsan Yarshater
Founding Editor, Encyclopaedia Iranica
Professor
Yarshater received his Ph.D. in Persian language and literature from
the University of Tehran (1947) and then he studied with W. B. Henning
at London University, from which he received an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree
in Old and Middle Iranian (1960).
He
first came to Columbia in 1958 and was appointed to the Kevorkian Chair
in 1961. He founded the Center for Iranian Studies in 1968.
Prof. Yarshater has authored and served as the editor of numerous scholarly works. Among others he has authored Persian Poetry in the Second Half of the 15th Century(1953), Southern Tati Dialects (1970), and has edited the third volume of Cambridge History of Iran, in two parts, covering the Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods (1983,1986), and Highlights of Persian Literature (1988). Professor Yarshater founded the Encyclopædia Iranica in
1974 and he continues to edit it. He is the General Editor of the
40-volume Tabari Translation Project, and the Founding Editor of the
Persian Text Series, the Persian Heritage Series, the Columbia Lectures
in Iranian Studies, and the Persian Studies Series.
Lecture
series in his name have been instituted at the University of London,
and the University of California at Los Angeles, and at the Centre
National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. In addition to receiving
the Georgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Achievement in Islamic Studies
from UCLA in 1991, Professor Yarshater has been elected honorary member
of the International Society for Iranian Studies, the Societas Europaeas
Iranologica, and the Institute of Central and West Asian Studies in
Pakistan.
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