Bozorg Alavi

Seyyed Mojtaba Bozorg Alavi [ bozorg ælævi ː ] (Persian بزرگ علوی; transcription ( DMG): Bozorg ʿ Alavī; born February 2, 1904 in Tehran, † February 16, 1997 in Berlin) was an Iranian writer, literary scholar and co-founder of the Tudeh Party of Iran.

Life

Bozorg Alavi came on 2 February 1904 in Tehran as Seyyed Mojtaba Alawi to the world. He was the third of six children. His father Sayyid Alawi Abulhassan participated in the Constitutional Revolution in Iran. During World War II he emigrated to Berlin, he was a member of the " German - Persian Gesellschaft eV " and gave together with Seyyed Hassan Taqizadeh out the newspaper Kaveh.

Seyyed Mojtaba Alawi first visited Tehran in the school. In 1921, he came as a 18- year-old with his older brother Morteza to Berlin, where he attended the gymnasium and studied. Upon his return to Iran in 1927, he taught German, first in Shiraz, then in Tehran. During these years he learned Sadegh Hedayat know to whom he developed a good friendship.

Also in the 1930s he supported Tagi Erani, the Chairman of the Communist Party of Iran. Alawi was one of the 53 men who were arrested in 1936 known under Reza Shah Pahlavi because " communist activities " and as a group of 53. He asserted in this context only as a writer to have read Communist literature, but not to have become politically active. Nevertheless, he was sentenced in 1937 to seven years' imprisonment, but released as part of the Anglo - Soviet invasion of Iran during World War II in 1941. After his imprisonment he wrote the paper scraps from prison and 53 people.

He continued his political activities continued afterwards and was still in his release, co-founder of the Marxist- Leninist Tudeh Party of Iran. The party organ Mardom ( dt, the people " ), he worked in the editorial office. At the time of the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in August 1953, Bozorg Alavi held up in East Germany. Considering that it had suspended following the overthrow of Mossadegh massive persecution, the Tudeh Party, he remained until the fall of the Shah regime by the Islamic revolution in 1979 in exile in the German Democratic Republic.

He worked there from 1954 to 1969 as a professor of Persian language and literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Together with Henry F. J. Junker, he was known at this time, especially as the author of an extensive Persian - German dictionary.

After the Islamic revolution in 1979, Bozorg Alavi visited Iran several times for a short time and expressed dismay over the development of the rule of the Supreme Leader Khomeini, which adopted similar repressive features as that of the Shah regime in his opinion. His last visit to his native country took place in 1993.

On February 16, 1997 Alawi died at 23:20 clock in the Friedrichshain Hospital in Berlin. Allawi had arranged with respect to his funeral:

"I am a Muslim and a Shiite. For this reason I want to be buried according to Islamic ritual on a Muslim cemetery. "

Work

Literary work

  • Tschamadān ( The Suitcase ) ( 1934)
  • Waragh Pāre'ha -ye Zendan ( scraps of paper from the prison ) ( 1941)
  • Pandschāh -o Seh Nafar (53 persons) ( 1942)
  • Name hā wa Dastan hā -ye Digar (Letters and Other Stories ) ( 1952)
  • Tschaschm - hā - yasch ( your eyes) (1952 )

Translations into Persian

  • Anton Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard
  • Samuel Marshak twelve months
  • George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren 's Profession
  • J. B. Priestly An Inspector Calls
  • Friedrich Schiller The Maid of Orleans
  • Theodor Nöldeke The Iranian national epic

Other works

  • Div ... Div ( Dämon. .. Demon ) ( 1931)
  • Ozbach - hā ( The Uzbeks ) ( 1948)
  • History and development of modern Persian literature (1964 )
  • Sālāriha ( The Salar )
  • Mirza

Dictionaries

  • Persian - German: Dictionary; Bozorg Alavi. - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002
  • Langenscheidts practical textbook of Bozorg Alavi Persian and Manfred Lorenz. - Berlin; Munich; Vienna; Zurich; New York: Langenscheidt, 1999
  • Textbook of Bozorg Alavi of the Persian language; Manfred Lorenz. - Leipzig; Berlin; Munich; Vienna; Zurich; New York: Langenscheidt, ET Encyclopedia, 1994
  • Textbook of Bozorg Alavi of the Persian language; Manfred Lorenz. - Leipzig; Berlin; Munich; Vienna; Zurich; New York: Langenscheidt, ET Encyclopedia, 1993
  • Dictionary Persian- German by Heinrich FJ Junker; Bozorg Alavi. - Leipzig; Berlin; Munich; Vienna; Zurich; New York: Langenscheidt, ET Encyclopedia, 1992
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