Nationality Iranian Died 1979 Role Writer | Name Hasan Amid Notable works Amid Dictionary Books Amid dictionary | |
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Occupation Lexicographer, writer, journalist | ||
Hasan Amid (Persian: حسن عمید; 1910–1979) was an Iranian lexicographer, writer, and journalist.
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Life and activities
Hasan Amid was born in 1910 in Mashhad, Khorasan province of Iran. He completed his education in Mashhad, and became a member of Anjoman-e Adabi (انجمن ادبی; "the Literature Community"). He started his career in journalism, writing, and lexicography on those years. Among the most important activities of him in Mashhad city was management of Khorasan yearbook and Tus newspaper.
During the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, when the Soviet forces captured Mashhad, Amid was exiled to Tehran.
Hasan Amid spent decades of his life on research centering on dictionaries and lexicography. He wrote multiple Persian dictionaries in these years, the most notable being Amid dictionary (فرهنگ عمید Farhang-e Amid). He died in 1979.