Fereydoon Motamed

Who was Fereydoon Motamed?

Amir Fereydoon Motamed, 1917–1993, was an internationally known professor and linguist, winner of the Louis de Broglie award, from the Académie française, and recipient of literary award "Le Grand Prix Littéraire d'Iran" from Writer's Association of French Language.

Fereydoon was son of an Iranian surgeon, Dr. Hossein Khan Motamed, chief of the surgery department in Razi Hospital, Tehran, Iran and founder of Motamed Hospital in Tehran. Fereydoun devoted his life to research in aesthetics of linguistics, music, and poetry in Indo-European languages using logic, and meter metrics analysis. He was a professor of Language & Social Sciences and the director of the cultural activities committee at the Anglo Iranian Oil Company Institute of Technology, Abadan, Iran later renamed to Petroleum University of Technology. He is also the recipient of the Broglie award from the Académie française in 1963, and literary award "Le Grand Prix Littéraire d'Iran" from Writer's Association of French Language Association Des Ecrivains De Langues Françaises: A.D.E.L.F. in 1976.

Mr. Motamed was a native of Iran and a resident of St. Mary's County, Maryland in the United States of America. He had his elementary and high school education in France near Paris. In 1946 he immigrated to the United States and earned his Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in New York City with his major in French literature. Later on, he devoted his life to research in the aesthetics of the temporal time in relation to the Indo-European languages and quantitative Meter, and he was the author of four books on that topic, the last of which is unpublished. His book De la metrique was honored to enrich the Nobel Library at Svenska Akademiens Nobelbibliotek, Börshuset, Stockholm, Sweden. He received many awards and praises from Académie française: Institute de France, Académie des Sciences, Paris, France, some of which are listed under the Awards and Honoraria.