Hossein Gol-e-Golab
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حسین گل گلاب also given as Hosayn Golgolab, (1895 - March 12, 1984) was a polymath
Polymath
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Iran
Iran
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ian scholar and musician who wrote the nationalist anthem Ey Iran
Ey Iran
Ey Iran is a famous and popular anthem in Iran. The lyrics were written by Hossein Gol-e-Golab in 1946, the music was composed by Ruhollah Khaleghi, and it was first performed by Gholam Hossein Banan....
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Gol-e-Golab was born in Kerman, and studied at the Elmiya School and Darolfonoon. He learned to play both the setar
Setar
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and tar
Tar
Tar is modified pitch produced primarily from the wood and roots of pine by destructive distillation under pyrolysis. Production and trade in tar was a major contributor in the economies of Northern Europe and Colonial America. Its main use was in preserving wooden vessels against rot. The largest...
as a boy. He taught at Dar al-Fonun and later enrolled at the law school there, earning degrees in law and political science in 1922. However, he displayed a great talent for the natural science
Natural science
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s, especially botany
Botany
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, and in 1928 was tenured at the school of medicine. This later became the Faculty of Medicine at the emerging University of Tehran
University of Tehran
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Gol-e-Golab never lost his interest in music, finding time to translate Western operas into his native Persian while teaching and writing on botany and serving on the Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature is a body controlled by the Iranian government presiding over the use of the Persian language in Iran and other Persian speaking countries. The academy members are academics of Persian literature and linguistics from , , , and .- History :The...
, to which he was appointed 1935.
In 1944, after witnessing an ugly incident where an American soldier serving on the Persian Corridor
Persian Corridor
The Persian Corridor is the name for a supply route through Iran into Soviet Azerbaijan by which British aid and American Lend-Lease supplies were transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II.-Background:...
beat up a native Iranian greengrocer, Gol-e-Golab composed the poem Ey Iran
Ey Iran
Ey Iran is a famous and popular anthem in Iran. The lyrics were written by Hossein Gol-e-Golab in 1946, the music was composed by Ruhollah Khaleghi, and it was first performed by Gholam Hossein Banan....
, which was set to music by Rouhollah Khaleghi and soon be came a de facto Iranian national anthem.