Mahmoud Behzad
Scientist, Deceased Person
1913 – 2007
Who was Mahmoud Behzad?
Professor Mahmoud Behzad, born in Rasht, the Capital city of Gilan province, is known as the father of new Biology science in Iran. He has written more than 100 books in Persian and participated in the authorship of more than 200 books in Iran.
He is the founder of Iran Scholarly Books Editing Organization and also fluent in English, French and German. Professor Behzad is famous because of the books he has translated of French science writer Jean Rostand and English naturalist Charles Darwin.
He worked for more than 5 years in Alborz High School as the vice president and the teacher of Biology. He died due to stomach cancer in his personal home in Rasht.
In the last years of his life, Professor Behzad worked in Shargh pharmacy in Rasht where he was ready to answer his fans and former students.
His senior son, Prof. Faramarz Behzad previous Lecturer of Persian at the German Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, and renowerd lexiographer in Bamberg his only daughter Prof. Parichehr Behzad works in the research department of Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and his junior son, Eng. Hooshang Behzad, lives and works in Shiraz as an architect.
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- Born
- 1913
Iran - Nationality
- Iran
- Profession
- Lived in
- Rasht
- Died
- 2007
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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