Yussef E'tesami

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Yussef E'tesami
یوسف اعتصامی
Tehran, Iran
Other namesMirza Yussef E'tesami E'tesam-al-Molk,
Mirza Yusuf E'tesami Ashtiani,
Yusuf E'tesami,
Mirza Yusof Khan Ashtiani
Known forBahar monthly journal, politician, publisher
ChildrenParvin E'tesami
Parent
  • Mīrzā Ebrāhīm Khan Mostawfī Eʿteṣām-al-Molk (father)
RelativesAbolhassan E'tesami (brother)

Yussef E'tesami (Persian: یوسف اعتصامی) (also known as, E'tesam-al-Molk (اعتصام‌الملک), Mirza Yusuf E'tesami Ashtiani; 1874–1938),

Majles (from 1909 to 1912).[1] His daughter was poet Parvin E'tesami
.

Biography

Yussef E'tesami was born in 1874. His father, Mīrzā Ebrāhīm Khan Mostawfī Eʿteṣām-al-Molk was from Ashtian and the head of finance of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan.[1] He was the elder brother of the architect and painter Abolhassan E'tesami, and the father of the poet Parvin E'tesami.[2]

In the 1890s, Yussef E'tesami established the first typographical printing house in

Majles
in 1909–12, and founded the Bahar journal in 1910. At various junctures, he served in the Ministry of Education and headed the Royal and Majles Libraries.

The

Encyclopaedia Iranica
, Heshmat Moayyad points out its "liberal and humanistic" orientation.

In addition to his contributions to Bahar, Yussef E'tesami's produced about forty volumes of translations, in particular some Persian translations of Qasim Amin's Tahrir al-Mara, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, vol. 1, and Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe. He is the author also of a commentary in Arabic of Abolqassem al-Zamakhshari's Atwaq ad-Dahab, a three-volume catalog of manuscripts in the Majles Library.

He died on 2 January 1938 in Tehran.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Moayyad, Heshmat (December 15, 1998). "Etesami, Mirza Yusuf Khan Ashtiani, Etesam-al-Molk". iranicaonline.org. Encyclopedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 6. p. 666. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  2. ^ "Parvin Etesami; Shining jewel in Persian literature's history". Mehr News Agency. 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
  3. ^ Yūsofī, Ḡ.-Ḥ. (December 15, 1988). "BAHĀR (1)". iranicaonline.org. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 5. Retrieved 2021-04-10.

Sources

  • Browne, Edward G. 1928. A literary history of Persia, vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar. 1977. Biographical note. In Poems of Parvin Etessami, ed. Abolfath Etessami, p. 342. Tehran: Abolfath Etessami.
  • E'tesami, Abolhassan. 1958. Biographical note. Tehran University News Bulletin 374, pp. 34–7.
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