Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian
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Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian born 1929 is the son of the deceased Qajar Persian
nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma
and his wife Hamdam Khanoum. He studied at Reed College
undergraduate and obtained a Doctorate in Biology at Stanford University
. A prominent academic in the United States he was a professor and head of the Biology department at Rutgers University
in New Jersey.
He has two daughters:
Persian people
The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...
nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma
Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma
Prince Abdol-Hossein Mirza was one of the most prominent Qajar princes, and one of the most influential politicians of his time in Persia. He was born to Prince Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza 1859, and died in November 1939 at the age of 80. He was the 16th grandson of the Qajar crown prince Abbas...
and his wife Hamdam Khanoum. He studied at Reed College
Reed College
Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...
undergraduate and obtained a Doctorate in Biology at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. A prominent academic in the United States he was a professor and head of the Biology department at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
in New Jersey.
He has two daughters:
- (a) Shahzadi Dellara Khanum Farman Farmaian.
- (b) Shahzadi Kimya Khanum Farman Farmaian. m. Michael Paul Harris
See also
- PersiaIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
- History of Persia
- History of IranHistory of IranThe history of Iran has been intertwined with the history of a larger historical region, comprising the area from the Danube River in the west to the Indus River and Jaxartes in the east and from the Caucasus, Caspian Sea, and Aral Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and Egypt...
- Qajar DynastyQajar dynastyThe Qajar dynasty was an Iranian royal family of Turkic descent who ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925....
of Iran - Rutgers UniversityRutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
External links
- The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages
- Qajars Dynasty Turkoman dynasty of Shahs of Iran
Sources
- Daughter of Persia; Sattareh Farman FarmaianSattareh Farman FarmaianSattāreh Farmānfarmā'iān is one of the daughters of Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma of the Qajar dynasty.Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, daughter of Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma , prince of the Qajar dynasty, and Massumeh , was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1921, the fifteenth of...
with Dona Munker; Crown Publishers,Inc.,New York,1992 - Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince; Manucher Mirza Farman FarmaianManucher Mirza Farman FarmaianPrince Manucher Mirza was born in Tehran in 1917. He was the sixth son of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and of Batoul Khanoum.He studied petroleum engineering at Birmingham University in England before returning to Iran...
. Random House, New York, 1997.