In The Name of God
Dehkhoda was born. Khan Baba Khan died when Dehkhoda was ten years old.the landowners of Ghazvin (a famous city northwest of Tehran) had migrated to Tehran beforeAli Akbar Dehkhoda was born in Tehran in 1881. His father, Khan Baba Khan, who was one of Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhoda"s life and work

Dehkhoda started learning from Najm Abadi as well.Sheikh Hadi Najm Abadi, who was one of Dehkhoda"s family"s neighbors. From an early ageby Dehkhoda himself as his main source of literacy, knowledge and education. The other wasafter his father"s death. The first was Sheikh Gholam Hossein Borujerdy whom has been creditedIt was Dehkhoda"s destiny to have two very knowledgeable members of the clergy as his mentors

intellectuals including Allameh Mohammad Ghazvini were exiled to Europe.revolution. After the parliament was closed by Mohammad Ali Shah, Dehkhoda and many otherhis education in Europe. Dehkhoda"s return to Iran from Europe coincided with the Mashroutiatfluency in French allowed him to accompany the Iran"s ambassador to the Balkans and completeDuring his adolescence, Dehkhoda learned French parallel to his religious and literary studies. His

Kerman and Tehran.Tehran. Dehkhoda was elected to the newly - formed parliament as a representative of bothShortly after, Mohammad Ali Shah was overthrown by the Mashroutiat revolutionaries" invasion of

1955 in Tehran and was buried in the nearby city of Ray.and dedicated himself to work on the persian language, literature and culture. Dehkhoda died inMahal Bakhtiari in western Iran. When the war ended he came back to Tehran, put politics asideDuring the First World War Dehkhoda spent most of his time in seclusion in a village in Chahar

Loghat Nameh Dehkhoda, the well known encyclopedic dictionary of Persian ***

thirty-five years of continuous effort. The last chapter of Loghat Nameh"s first edition was publishedLoghat Nameh Dehkhoda is based on more than two million notes written by Dehkhoda during his

not an encyclopedia by definition, yet it contains many articles on a variety of topics and subjects.compositions with documented references to Persian text and poems. Loghat Nameh Dehkhoda isconsisted of 26000 pages divided into 222 chapters. There are 342262 topics and almost 58457in 1981. The last chapter was published about fifty years after the first chapter. The entire series

disk (CD) media format.Nameh" and the transformation of the 26000-page Loghat Nameh Dehkhoda into the compactThe Loghat Nameh Dehkhoda Institute"s activities include the authorship of the new "Farsi Loghat

Nameh. After his death the parliament took over his work and, in 1957, the Iranian parliament gaveDehkhoda used his own financial resources for almost 30 years to do the work on the Loghat

Language and Literature Department, as the vice chair.institute along with Dr. Seyyed Jafar Shahidi, one of the well - known academics of the PersianLoghat Nameh with Dehkhoda, was appointed as the chairman of the Loghat Nameh DehkhodaDehkhoda. Dr. Mohammad Moin, one of the university professors who had been co-authoringFarsi Language and Literature Department of Tehran University authority over the Loghat Nameh

Loghat Nameh introductory Chapter.Language. For details on the history of Loghat Nameh Dehkhoda Institute please refer to theDehkhoda Institute. Currently, he is also the chairman of the International Institute of the PersianAfter Dr. Moin"s death in 1971, Dr. Shahidi was appointed as the chairman of the Loghat Nameh

Summary of Presentation by

Dr. Gholam Reza Sotoudeh