Ehsan Yarshater

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Iranologist academic editor historian person

Ehsan Yarshater was a prominent Iranian historian and Iranologist best known as the founding editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica and a leading scholar of Persian language and literature.

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Label	Occurrences
Ehsan Yarshater canonical	2
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Iranologist ⓘ academic ⓘ editor ⓘ historian ⓘ person ⓘ
areaOfInfluence	Iranian studies ⓘ Persian literary studies ⓘ
citizenship	Iran ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Iran ⓘ
countryOfDeath	United States of America ⓘ
countryOfResidence	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1920-04-03 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2018-09-01 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Walter Bruno Henning NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	SOAS University of London ⓘ surface form: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London University of Tehran ⓘ
employer	Columbia University ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Iranian peoples ⓘ surface form: Iranian
familyName	Yarshater ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Iranian studies ⓘ Persian literature ⓘ history ⓘ linguistics ⓘ
founded	Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University ⓘ Encyclopaedia Iranica ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	Ehsan ⓘ
honorificTitle	founding editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica ⓘ
knownFor	founding editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica ⓘ scholarship on Persian language ⓘ scholarship on Persian literature ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ German ⓘ Persian ⓘ
name	Ehsan Yarshater self-link ⓘ
nativeLanguage	Persian ⓘ
notableWork	Encyclopaedia Iranica ⓘ
occupation	editor ⓘ historian ⓘ university professor ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Hamadan ⓘ
placeOfDeath	New York City ⓘ
positionHeld	Ehsan Yarshater self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University ⓘ
religion	secular humanism ⓘ
residence	New York City ⓘ
workInstitution	Columbia University ⓘ

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University of Tehran → hasNotableFaculty → Ehsan Yarshater ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies