Parviz Natel-Khanlari

Parviz Natel Khanlari (Persian: پرویز ناتل خانلری; March 20, 1914^[2][3] – August 23, 1990) was an Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher, politician, and professor at Tehran University.

Parviz Natel-Khanlari
Minister of Culture
In office 1 August 1962 – 7 March 1964
Prime Minister	Asadollah Alam
Preceded by	Mohammad Derakhshesh
Succeeded by	Abdullali Jahanshahi
Senator from Mazandaran
In office 11 March 1964 – 11 February 1979
Appointed by	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Personal details
Born	20 March 1914[1] Tehran, Persia
Died	23 August 1990(1990-08-23) (aged 76) Tehran, Iran
Resting place	Behesht-e Zahra
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Zahra Kia
Children	2
Alma mater	St. Louis School Tehran American School Dar ul-Funun Supreme University University of Tehran

Biography

Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from Tehran University in 1943 with a doctorate degree in Persian literature, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters. He also studied linguistics at Paris University for two years. From then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in Tehran University.

Apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 revolution, Khanlari held numerous administrative positions in the Iran in the 1960s through the late 1970s.^[4]

Parviz Natel Khanlari was the founder and editor of Sokhan magazine, a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from the early 1940s to 1978.

See also

• Persian literature
• Iranian Studies