Puri Soltani

Puri Soltani (Persian: پوری سلطانی) was an academic who was a "pioneer of Iranian librarianship".

Puri Soltani in 2012

Soltani was born in Hamadan.[1] Her father, a prominent constitutionalist lawyer, died while she was a child.[2] Her husband, the poet and newspaper editor, Morteza Keyvan, was executed three months after their wedding, prompting Soltani to leave Iran for several years. After returning to Iran, Soltani founded multiple library organizations, expanded the library system of the University of Tehran, and oversaw the digitization of Iranian national documents.[1] Soltani is credited with modernizing libraries and information science in Iran. She died in Tehran in 2015.[1][3]

References
  1. "پوری سلطانی، پیشگام کتابداری نوین ایران درگذشت" [Puri Soltani, the pioneer of modern Iranian librarianship, has died]. BBC News فارسی (in Persian). 2015-11-07. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  2. "به یاد پوری سلطانی (در سالروز ازدواجش)". aasoo (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  3. "سال اشک پوری؛ روز مرگ سلطانی". tarikhirani.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-04-13.
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