Hasan Amid

Hasan Amid
Hasan Amid
	Hasan Amid
Born	1910; Iran Mashhad
Died	1979
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 (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.

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