page_title: Iraj Afshar
section_title: Biographical timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Iraj Afshar / Biographical timeline
caption_attribution_description: فارسی: ایرج افشار، اللهیار صالح (جام طلای مارلیک در دستش)، عباس زریاب خویی، رضا مستوفی. تپه مارلیک، سپیدرود گیلان، ۱۳۴۱. English: Iraj Afshar, Abbas Zaryab, and others in Marlik.
context_page_description: Iraj Afshar was a bibliographer, historian, and an iconic figure in the field of Persian studies. He was a consulting editor of Encyclopædia Iranica at Columbia University and a full professor emeritus of University of Tehran.
  Iraj Afshar recorded the monuments of Yazd in his three-volume "yādegār-hāye Yazd". He was known as "the doyen of standard Persian language bibliographers". Afshar played a significant role in the development of the field of Iranology in Iran and throughout the world during the second half of the 20th century.
  He was the editor of Sokhan, a prolific Iranology journal, under the responsibility of Parviz Natel-Khanlari and also the editor of rāhnamāye ketāb, Mehr, farhang-e Iranzamin and Ayandeh.
  He was the chief bibliographer of Persian books at Harvard University. Afshar was associated with UNESCO and taught at the University of Bern and University of Tehran.
  He was on the advisory council for the Iranian Studies Journal.
context_section_description: 1925: Birth in Tehran, Iran (Father: Dr. Mahmoud  Afshar, Mother: Nosrat Barazandeh)
  1933–1945: Attended Zoroastrian  Shāpour Secondary School and Firouz-Bahrām High School in Tajrish, Tehran
  1944–1946: Manager of Ayandeh Journal
  1945: Received Diploma in Literature
  1945: Marriage to Shayesteh Afsharieh
  1945–1949: Attended University of Tehran majoring in Law, thesis: Minorities in Iran
  1946–1955: Collaboration with jahān-e now (New World) Journal (Editor in Chief: Hossein Hejazi)
  1950: Employed by Ministry of Culture and Education  as educator at Sharif High School and Gharib High School
  1951–1960: Librarian – Law Library of University of Tehran – with encouragement from Dr. Mohsen Sabah and Mohammad-Taqi Danesh-Pajouh
  1952–1953: Editor-in-Chief of Mehr Journal (licensee: Majeed Movaqqar)
  1952-2011: Founder and Managing Editor of farhang-e Irānzamin Journal (in association with Mohammad-Taqi Danesh-Pajouh, Manoucher Sotoudeh, Mostafa Mogharrabi, Abbas Zaryab Khoyee)
  1963–1966: Publication of ketābhāy-e Iran (Books of Iran) (Annual bibliography)
  1954–1956: Editor-in-Chief of Sokhan Journal (licensee: Dr. Parviz Natel-Khanlari)
  1955–1961: Director ketābhāy-e māh (Books of the Month) Journal (Publication of Society of Publishers with cooperation of Franklin Publishing Corporation)
  1956–1963: Acting Managing Director bongāh-e tarjomeh o nasher-e ketāb (Institute for Translation and Publishing of Books)
  1956–1957: Attended UNESCO Educational and Practical Library Science training in Europe
  1957–1958: Co-founder bāshgāh-e ketāb (Book Club) later named anjoman-e ketāb (Book Society)
  1958–1969: Educator Library Science at dāneshsarāy-e ālee (Higher Education) division of University of Tehran
  1958–1979: Managing Editor rāhnamāy-e ketāb Journal (licensee: Ehsan Yarshater)
  1958–1979: Director anjoman-e ketāb (Book Society)
  1961–1979: Founder nashriyeh noskhehāy-e khatti  (Journal of Manuscripts), Central Library of University of Tehran (in collaboration with Mohammad-Taqi Danesh-Pajouh)
  1961–1962: Director of the Library of dāneshsarāy-e āli
  1962: Director National Library of Iran (founded Iranian Studies Branch, founded Bibliography of Iran and indexing of library's manuscripts with efforts of Abdollah Anvar)
  1962: Return to teaching at dāneshsarā-e āli
  1963–1964: Return to University of Tehran as Director of Center of Bibliographic Research and Indexing
  1963: Indexing and Cataloging Harvard University printed Persian books
  1963: Technical Manager of Library Sciences Literacy Committee (UNESCO National commission)
  1964–1971: Director of Bureau of Publications and Cultural Relations (Later named Bureau of Publications and Library Relations)
  1965–1979: Director of Central Library and Document Center, University of Tehran
  1965–1973: Teaching at Iran Historical Social Divisions dāneshkadeh olum ejtemāee (Department of Social Sciences) University of Tehran
  1966–1979: Founded ketābdāri Journal, a publication of University of Tehran Central Library
  1969: Director National Book Center interrelated to UNESCO National Commission
  1969–1979: Associate Professor, later Professor of History (Historical Documents and Native History) Department of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Tehran.  (Manuscripts in Library Science) College of Educational Sciences
  1969–1972: Director Iranshenāsi Journal, Publication of Department of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Tehran
  1969–1979: Permanent Director of Congress of Iranian Studies
  1979–1983: Established sāzemān-e ketāb (independently)
  1979–1993: Published Ayandeh Journal from 5th volume for fifteen years
  1983: Death of father (Dr. Mahmoud Afshar, PhD.)
  1984: Established nāmvāreh-e Dr. Mahmoud Afshar published by Doctor Mahmoud Afshar Foundation.  From 11th volume it was named pajouhesh-hāye Irāni (Iranian Studies/Research)
  1989: Teaching at Bern University, Bern Switzerland
  1996: Death of spouse (Shayesteh Afsharieh)
  1998: Cataloging Persian manuscripts at Austrian National Library (Vienna)
  2001: Established daftar-e tārikh, publishing small documents and thesis from Doctor Mahmoud 
caption: Iraj Afshar (right) with Allahyar Saleh, Abbas Zaryab and Reza Mostowfi at Marlik, 1962
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