Yarshater, Ehsan, 1920-2018

LC control no.	n 79059308
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Yarshater, Ehsan, 1920-2018 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Yar-Shater, Ehsan, 1920-2018 Yārshāṭir, Iḥsān Allāh, 1920-2018 Yar-e-Shater, Ehsan, 1920-2018 يار شاطر، احسان، 1920-2018 يارشاطر، احسان، 1920-2018
Associated country	Iran United States
Located	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1920-04-03
Death date	2018-09-02
Place of birth	Hamadān (Iran)
Place of death	Fresno (Calif.)
Field of activity	Iran--Civilization
Affiliation	Columbia University University of London
Profession or occupation	Iranologists Historians College teachers
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Found in	Avicenna. Tarjame-ye Fārsi-ye eshārāt va ... 1953. Encyclopædia Iranica, 1983- : cover (Ehsan Yarshater) Persian literature, c1987: CIP t.p. (Ehsan Yarshater; Columbia Univ.) Dir. of Amer. sch., 1982 (Yar-Shater, Ehsan; b. Hamadan, Iran, Apr. 3, 1920; Dept. of Middle East Lang. & Cult., Columbia Univ.) Dāstānhā-yi Īrān-i bāstān, 1958: t.p. (Iḥsān Yār Shāṭir) added t.p. (Ehsan Yar-e-Shater [in rom.]) Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Apr. 22, 2010 (Ehsan O(llah) Yar-Shater; b. Apr. 3, 1920, Hamadan, Persia; University of London, Ph. D., 1960; Columbia University, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies, 1961-; director of Iran Center, 1961-; pseudonym: Rahsepar (Naqqashi-ye Novin, 1965-66)) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 19, 2018 (in obituary published Sept. 18: Ehsan Yarshater; b. Ehsan Ollah Yarshater, Apr. 3, 1920, Hamadan, Iran; moved to New York in 1961; d. Sept. 2, Fresno, Calif., aged 98; eminent Iranian historian who founded and edited the Encyclopedia Iranica, a magnum opus of Iranian history and culture that helped transform the modern understanding of Persian civilization)
Associated language	eng per