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Ehsan Yarshater

1920 - 2018

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Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر; April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of the Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. He was the first Persian full-time professor at a U.S. university since World War II. He was one of the 40 editors of the Encyclopædia Iranica, with articles by 300 authors from various academic institutions. He also edited the third volume of The Cambridge History of Iran, comprising the history of the Seleucids, the Parthians, and the Sassanians, and a volume entitled Persian Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ehsan Yarshater is the 389th most popular historian (down from 360th in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Iran and the 6th most popular Iranian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 389 out of 561. Before him are Ernest Labrousse, Fritz Stern, Cadmus of Miletus, Domenico Losurdo, Jan T. Gross, and Ronald Syme. After him are Zhao Rukuo, Olena Apanovych, Joan Wallach Scott, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Hugo Falcandus, and Constantine Paparrigopoulos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 291. Before him are Lea Padovani, Jacqueline Mazéas, Nobuyuki Kato, Georges Balandier, Nida Senff, and Jack Lord. After him are Musa Anter, Nils Bohlin, Gordon Gould, Fernando Riera, Liam Cosgrave, and Constant Nieuwenhuys. Among people deceased in 2018, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 308. Before him are Oliver Ivanović, Hans Günter Winkler, Chuck McCann, Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Domenico Losurdo, and Frank Havens. After him are Reinhard Hardegen, Unshō Ishizuka, Davide Astori, Beatriz Segall, Mohammed Hazzaz, and Morgana King.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 367 out of 631. Before him are Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (1935), Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Mohammad Mirmohammadi (1948), and Zahra Rahnavard (1945). After him are Ebi (1949), Homayoun Ershadi (1947), Borzuya (500), Rita (1962), Kazim Rashti (1793), and Mirza Ibrahimov (1911).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iran

Among historians born in Iran, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 6. Before him are Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), Ibn al-Faqih (null), Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500), Ahmad Kasravi (1890), and Hafiz-i Abru (null). After him are Firishta (1560).

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