Yussef Etessami

Yussef Etessami or Etessam -ol - milked (* 1874, † 1938) was an Iranian journalist, civil servant, publisher, translator and author. His father Ebrahim came from Ashtian and was head of finance of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Yussef was the older brother of the architect and painter Abolhassan Etessami and father of the poetess Parvin Etessami.

In the 1890s, Yussef Etessami founded the first typographic publishing house in Tabriz. From 1909-12 he was a member of the Iranian parliament or Majlis. In 1910 he founded the magazine Bahar ( Spring ). At various times he served in the Ministry of Education and stood in front of the Royal Majlis, and libraries.

The Bahar appeared as a 64-page monthly magazine in the years 1910-1 and 1921-2. As announced in the first issue, the task of the sheet Bahar was " ... to provide the readers professionally formed a forum for various important topics of scientific, literary, ethical, historical and artistic interest, and bring valuable information closer to the public. " most posts you have made or translated by Yussef Etessami, and a large part was devoted to the Western culture. Bahar appeared Edward Granville Browne (1928, 489 ) " very modern and European in tone ," and in the Encyclopaedia Iranica has Heshmat Moayyad on the " liberal humanist " setting out.

In addition to the contributions in Bahar, Yussef Etessami made ​​at approximately forty volumes of translations. Particular mention some Persian translations of Qasim amine Tahrir al - Mara, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, and Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller. He is also author of a commentary in Arabic by al - Abolqassem Zamakhsharis Atwaq ad - Dahab and a three-volume catalog of manuscripts in the Majlis Library.