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Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

1886 - 1951

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Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (Persian: محمدتقی بهار; also romanised as Mohammad-Taqī Bahār; 10 December 1886 in Mashhad – 22 April 1951 in Tehran), widely known as Malek osh-Sho'arā (Persian: ملک‌الشعراء) and Malek osh-Sho'arā Bahār ("poet laureate," literally: the king of poets), was a renowned Iranian poet, scholar, politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character. Bahar was father of prominent Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian Mehrdad Bahar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammad-Taqi Bahar is the 3,142nd most popular writer (up from 3,242nd in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Iran (up from 305th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among writers, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 3,142 out of 7,302. Before him are Jefimija, Johannes Ewald, Richard Curtis, Roberto Calasso, Jean Desmarets, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes. After him are Walter Hasenclever, Béla Király, Rahul Sankrityayan, Olaudah Equiano, Juan Fernández de Heredia, and Edward Gorey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 148. Before him are Max Vasmer, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Fred Quimby, Radhabinod Pal, Alexander Svanidze, and Florence Lawrence. After him are Constant Permeke, Itzhak Katzenelson, Rebecca Clarke, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Malak Hifni Nasif, and Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao. Among people deceased in 1951, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 98. Before him are László Almásy, István Friedrich, André Gobert, Charles Dillon Perrine, Ernesto Ambrosini, and Gonzalo Queipo de Llano. After him are Abanindranath Tagore, John Paine, Pedro Salinas, Selim Palmgren, José Enrique Varela, and Edgar Rubin.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 284 out of 631. Before him are Gholamreza Takhti (1930), Raffi (1835), Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (1940), Mostafa Chamran (1932), Imad al-Dawla (892), and Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960). After him are Ahmad Qavam (1876), Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Ahmad Kasravi (1890), Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), and Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 33. Before him are Parvin E'tesami (1907), Táhirih (1817), Mastoureh Ardalan (1805), Kader Abdolah (1954), Ubayd Zakani (1301), and Raffi (1835). After him are Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Samad Behrangi (1939), Nima Yooshij (1897), Ahmad Shamlou (1925), and Subh-i-Azal (1831).

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