Jaleh Amouzgar
{{Short description|Iranian Iranologist and university professor}}
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| name = Jaleh Amouzgar
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| caption = Amouzgar in Tehran, 2013
| birth_date = 4 December 1939
| birth_name = Jaleh Amouzgar Yeganeh
{{lang|fa|ژاله آموزگار یگانه}}
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| occupation = Writer, University professor
| awards = Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and Persian Cypress Award{{cite web |url=http://www.irna.ir/fa/News/82367423/ |title=ایرنا - جایزۀ سرو ایرانی در ایستگاه دوم به ژاله آموزگار اعطا میشود |website=www.irna.ir |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230230834/http://www.irna.ir/fa/News/82367423/ |archive-date=2016-12-30}}
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Jaleh Amouzgar {{post-nominal styles|post-noms=L.d'H.}} ({{langx|fa|ژاله آموزگار}}; born December 4, 1939) is an Iranologist, an expert of the Middle Persian language, and a university professor.
Life
Amouzgar holds a Ph.D. from Sorbonne University in Iranistics (Iranian linguistics).{{cite web|url=http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=7248|title=Le cinquième livre du denkard|language=fr|access-date=2010-02-14|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170948/http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=7248|url-status=dead}} She is currently chairman of the department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages at the Tehran University.{{cite web |url=http://cws.ut.ac.ir/Publications/WomensResearch/Womensresearch.aspx |title=Center for Women's Studies - the University of Tehran |access-date=2010-02-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225114523/http://cws.ut.ac.ir/Publications/WomensResearch/Womensresearch.aspx |archive-date=2010-02-25 }}
Amouzgar, in collaboration with Ahmad Tafazzoli, has contributed significantly to Ancient Iranian studies and the history of literature in ancient Iran. She has also associated with the Encyclopædia Iranica project at Columbia University.{{cite web |url=http://www.cgie.org.ir/images/Contributions.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-02-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217021107/http://www.cgie.org.ir/images/Contributions.pdf |archive-date=2010-02-17 }}
She has been awarded the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor{{Cite web |date=2016-07-04 |title=Iranian linguist Jaleh Amuzegar awarded Chevalier of the Legion of Honor |url=https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/404004/Iranian-linguist-Jaleh-Amuzegar-awarded-Chevalier-of-the-Legion |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Tehran Times |language=en}} and Persian Cypress Award (an Iranian Cultural Heritage Prize) in 2016.
Works
- Zoroastrian myth of life
- Pahlavi language, literature and instructions
- Mythological history of Iran
- The first samples and the first man on legendary Iranian Shahriyar (translation)
- Le Cinquième Livre Du Denkard, Ahmad Tafazzuli (Translator), Peeters, 2001-01-01, {{ISBN|978-2-910640-09-5}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051024093908/http://www.nimrooz.net/iranistics/amouzgar/ Biography of Jaleh Amouzgar]
- [http://www.masoudsoheili.com/IranArt-Writers/JalehAmouzgar.html Portrait of Jaleh Amouzgar]
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Category:Grammarians from Iran
Category:20th-century Iranian historians
Category:University of Paris alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Tehran
Category:Iranian women academics
Category:Iranian expatriates in France
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