Yussef E'tesami

Yussef E'tesami (also known as, E'tesam-al-Molk, Mirza Yusuf E'tesami Ashtiani; 1874–1938),[1] was an Iranian journalist, politician, publisher, translator, and writer. He was a member of the second Majles (from 1909 to 1912).[1] His daughter was poet Parvin E'tesami.

Yussef E'tesami
یوسف اعتصامی
Born
Mirza Yusuf E'tesam-al-Molk

1874
Tabriz, Iran
Died2 January 1938
Tehran, Iran
Other namesMirza Yussef E'tesami E'tesam-al-Molk,
Mirza Yusuf E'tesami Ashtiani,
Yusuf E'tesami,
Mirza Yusof Khan Ashtiani
Known forBahar monthly journal, politician, publisher
ChildrenParvin E'tesami
Parent
  • Mīrzā Ebrāhīm Khan Mostawfī Eʿteṣām-al-Molk (father)
RelativesAbolhassan E'tesami (brother)

Biography

Yussef E'tesami was born in 1874. His father, Mīrzā Ebrāhīm Khan Mostawfī Eʿteṣām-al-Molk was from Ashtian and the head of finance of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan.[1] He was the elder brother of the architect and painter Abolhassan E'tesami, and the father of the poet Parvin E'tesami.[2]

In the 1890s, Yussef E'tesami established the first typographical printing house in Tabriz. He was a member of the Iranian Parliament or Majles in 1909–12, and founded the Bahar journal in 1910. At various junctures, he served in the Ministry of Education and headed the Royal and Majles Libraries.

The Bahar journal was a sixty-four-page monthly published in two periods; from April 1910– October 1911 and from April 1921–December 1922.[3] As noted in the first issue, the purpose of Bahar was “to provide a … forum for various significant topics of scientific, literary, ethical, historical, and artistic interest to people of understanding, and to acquaint the public with valuable information.” Most of the journal's material was written or translated by Yussef E'tesami, and a large part devoted to Western culture. To Edward Granville Browne (1928, 489) Bahar appeared "very modern and European in tone;" and in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Heshmat Moayyad points out its "liberal and humanistic" orientation.

In addition to his contributions to Bahar, Yussef E'tesami's produced about forty volumes of translations, in particular some Persian translations of Qasim Amin's Tahrir al-Mara, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, vol. 1, and Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe. He is the author also of a commentary in Arabic of Abolqassem al-Zamakhshari's Atwaq ad-Dahab, a three-volume catalog of manuscripts in the Majles Library.

He died on 2 January 1938 in Tehran.[1]

References
  1. Moayyad, Heshmat (December 15, 1998). "Etesami, Mirza Yusuf Khan Ashtiani, Etesam-al-Molk". iranicaonline.org. Encyclopedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 6. p. 666. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  2. "Parvin Etesami; Shining jewel in Persian literature's history". Mehr News Agency. 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
  3. Yūsofī, Ḡ.-Ḥ. (December 15, 1988). "BAHĀR (1)". iranicaonline.org. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 5. Retrieved 2021-04-10.

Sources
  • Browne, Edward G. 1928. A literary history of Persia, vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar. 1977. Biographical note. In Poems of Parvin Etessami, ed. Abolfath Etessami, p. 342. Tehran: Abolfath Etessami.
  • E'tesami, Abolhassan. 1958. Biographical note. Tehran University News Bulletin 374, pp. 34–7.
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