Heshmat Moayyad


Heshmat Moayyad was a Persian writer, translator and the founder of University of Chicago's Persian program.
Moayyad was the professor at the Chicago University for more than 40 years. He also translated modern Persian literature into English and German. Moayyad organized major conferences at UChicago on the Indo-Persian poet Amir Khosrow and on the poet Parvin Etesâmi, as well as the first academic conference about “The Baha'i Faith and Islam” in 1984 at McGill University in Montreal.

Life

Heshmat Moayyad was born in in a Bahai family. He started his education in Tehran. After completing his undergraduate studies in Persian and Arabic Literature at the University of Tehran, he went to Tübingen in 1951 to learn German, and by the end of 1952 was studying Orientalistics and German Literature for the PhD with Hellmut Ritter at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Moayyad died in Chicago in 2018.

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