Hassan Taghizadeh

Hassan Taghizadeh حسنتقیزاده is politician Iran IEN born in 1877 with Tabriz and died in 1969 with Teheran.

Biography

Wire of a Moslem monk, Hassan Taghizadeh follows the example of her father and engages in a career of monk. It appears that with old 5 years, it knew already most of the Coran. Taghizadeh rather quickly leaves the career of monk. He learns French, English and is interested in medicine, the geometry and astronomy. In its youth, he visits Istanbul, Cairo, Alexandria, Damas and Beirut.

At the 21 years age, Hassan Taghizadeh founds with some friends the school Tarbiyat (“Education”) and her bookstore, with for goal to promote certain European values by the teaching of French, English and Russian. Vis-a-vis the opposition of the clergy immediately, the school will be closed. Taghizadeh then crosses a period of loneliness which it makes profitable to translate of French a treaty of the astronomer Camille Flammarion, because astrology was its favorite pastime.

It takes an active part in the constitutional revolution which leads to the creation of the Iranian Parliament, to which it will be elected under the reign of Mozaffaredin Chah.

Hassan Taghizadeh opposes openly the dictatorial tendencies of the following monarch, Mohammad Ali Chah which ends up making bombard the Parliament. It leaves in exile and sign to the university Cambridge. After the fall of Mohammad Ali Chah, it goes back to Teheran and it is elected at the Parliament. It creates the democratic party. He becomes chief of the Iranian delegation at the time of the talks with the Russia and then with the Great Britain.

Starting from 1916, it publishes the newspaper Kaveh (the name is inspired by Kaveh the blacksmith), in which collaborate of the important writers, such Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh.

The June 27th 1932, Hassan Taghizadeh, then Minister for Finance, officially notifies to the president Anglo-Persian Oil Company that its government would refuse from now on to box the royalties poured by the company, which are considered “insufficient” and “not proportioned” with the needs for Iran.

In 1942, he becomes ambassador with London and firmly supports the activities of the cultural attache Abdol-Hossein Hamzavi who regards Iran as the “bridge of the victory” of the allies پولپیروزی|Pole pirouzi . During its career, Taghizadeh will have been representing of Iran to the UNO, Minister for Finance, senator and president of the senate. Its detractors present it like a notorious anglophile. They claim that he played a big role in the assassination of the ayatollah Behbahani. He dies in Teheran in 1969, with old 92 years.

Works

S.H. Taqizadeh, Old Iranian Calendars , Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1938,
Payam Nabarz and S.H. Taqizadeh, The Persian “Mar Nameh”: The Zoroasterian “Book off the Snake”, Omens and Calendar and The Old Iranian Calendar , Twin Snakes, Oxford, 2006,

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