Prominent translator, researcher and lexicographer Gholam Hossein Sadri Afshar passed away on Tuesday Tehran. He was 84.
Born in 1935 in Urmia, West Azarbaijan Province, Sadri Afshar tried several professions after secondary school and finally took up culture. He started with lexicography in 1966 at the Culture Foundation of Iran (currently known as Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology), ISNA wrote on its Persian website.
The books, ‘Contemporary Persian Dictionary’, ‘Encyclopedia of Traditional Occupations’ and ‘Technical Glossary’, are among his published works. He also released three books of his own poems.
During his career he translated eight books from English to Persian among which are the six volumes of ‘Introduction to the History of Science’ written by American-Belgian chemist George Sarton, which Sadri Afshar rendered into Farsi in collaboration with translator and researcher Nastaran Hakami.
Ebn-e-Sina Cultural House will host a memorial for Sadri Afshar on April 20. The center is located at Iran-Zamin Street in Shahrak-e Qarb neighborhood in northwest Tehran.
