Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

He was born in Tehran in 1879 to a family from Qazvin — the English infobox's "Qazvin" is the family's origin, not his birthplace — and lost his father at nine. He graduated from the School of Political Science, served at the Iranian embassy in the Balkans, and on returning joined the Constitutional Revolution: with Mirza Jahangir Khan he published Sur-e Esrafil, writing its famous satirical column Charand-o-Parand under the pen name Dakho. Exiled after the 1908 coup, he published the paper from Europe, returned in 1911 to the Majlis, and later taught at Tehran University. ¹²

His life's work, the Loghat-nameh or Dehkhoda Dictionary, grew over forty-five years into fifteen volumes; after his death Mohammad Moin completed the unfinished volumes at his request. He also published Amsal o Hekam (Proverbs and Sayings), a French-Persian dictionary, and a translation of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. He died at Tehran on 26 February 1956 by Iranica and the Persian article — the English article gives 9 March — and was buried at the Ibn Babawayh cemetery in Ray. ¹²

His affiliation is recorded as unknown. The English article states no religion, the Persian infobox's religion field is empty, Iranica names no affiliation, and Wikidata carries no religion value; his satire's attacks on the clerical reaction of his day were political, not an attestation of unbelief. ¹³²⁴

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