Hasan Amid

Hasan Amid حسن عمید
Hasan Amid
Born	1910 Mashhad, Iran
Died	10 September 1979(1979-09-10) (aged 69) Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Lexicographer, writer, journalist
Nationality	Iranian
Notable works	Amid Dictionary

Hasan Amid (Persian: حسن عمید; 1910–1979) 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 ("the Literary Community"). He started his career in journalism, writing, and lexicography in those years. Among his most important activities in Mashhad was being editor-in-chief 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, Farrhang-e Amid). He died on 10 September 1979.

Works

• Amid, Hasan (1963). Farhang-i Farsi 'Amid (Persian Dictionary). ISBN 978-9-648-21627-1. Retrieved 17 March 2023. Amid dictionary
• Farhang-e No (1929)
• Farhang-e Koochak-e Amid
• Farhang-e Mofasal-e Amid
• Farhang-e Bargozide-ye Amid
• Farhang-e Jibi-ye Amid
• Farhang-e Dabirestani-ye Amid
• Farhang-e Tarikh va Joghrafia-ye Amid
• Gross Errors in Persian Dictionaries
• Nikookaran (1936)
• Khorasan Yearbook
• On the Ruins of Persepolis (1931)
• Magnetism Mysteries
• Tebb-e Jadid
• Amid, Hasan (2008). Hasan Amid: Einsprachiges Wörterbuch Persisch. p. 1309. ISBN 978-9-640-00131-8. Retrieved 17 March 2023.

References

• Rasekhoon Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• ICAL