Hasan Amid

Hasan Amid حسن عمید
Hasan Amid
Born	1910 Mashhad, Iran
Died	8 September 1980(1980-09-08) (aged 70) Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Lexicographer, writer, journalist
Nationality	Iranian
Notable works	Amid Dictionary

Hasan Amid (Persian: حسن عمید; b. 1910 - d. 1979) was an Iranian lexicographer, writer, and journalist.

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 (Anjomane Adabi; "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 (Wāźenāmeye Amid Farhang-e Amid). He died in 1979.

Works

• Amid dictionary (Farhange Amid) (1963)
• Farhange No
• Farhange Koochake Amid
• Farhange Mofasale Amid
• Farhange Bargozideye Amid
• Farhange Jibie Amid
• Farhange Dabirestanie Amid
• Farhange Tarikh va Joghrafiaye Amid
• Gross errors in Persian dictionaries
• Nikookaran (1936)
• Khorasan yearbook
• On the ruins of Persepolis (1931)
• Magnetism mysteries
• Tebbe Jadid

References

• Persian Wikipedia article
• http://rasekhoon.net/mashahir/Show-107308.aspx
• http://www.ical.ir/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=4352:%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%87-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%B9%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF-/-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B6%D8%A7-%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B4&Itemid=31