Esmail Merat

Esmail Merat
اسماعیل مرآت
Minister of Health
In office
27 August 1941 – 12 November 1941
MonarchMohammad Reza Shah
Prime MinisterMohammad Ali Foroughi
Succeeded byBaqer Kazemi
Minister of Education
In office
20 September 1935 – 27 August 1941
MonarchReza Shah
Prime MinisterMahmoud Djam
Ahmad Matin-Daftari
Ali Mansur
Preceded byHekmat E Shirazi
Succeeded byIsa Sedigh
Personal details
Born(1893-03-07)7 March 1893
Tehran, Sublime State of Persia
Died18 December 1949(1949-12-18) (aged 56)
New York City, United States[1]
Resting placeAlijan Garden, Rey, Iran
Parent
  • Mirza Musa Khan Meratolmamalek (father)

Esmail Merat (Persian: اسماعیل مرآت‎; 7 March 1893 – 18 December 1949) was Iran's minister of education during Reza Shah's reign. He is the founder of some faculties of University of Tehran, including the law and technical faculties. He has also founded the art section of University of Tehran.

He suggested a change in medical university law, which caused managing Tehran hospital under the medical faculty. In 1956, in respect of his valuable works, a university street was named after him.

He was very eager to publish suitable educational books, which results in more than 200 high school books. The Academy of Persian Language and Literature was another organization which was founded because of his suggestion and due to Reza Shah's command.[2][3]

Education and early life

Esmail was born in September 1939 in Tehran. His father was Mirza Musa Khan Merat ol-mamalek.

He finished his undergraduate education in Tehran before traveling to Europe in 1892 to continue his education.[4] After living in Switzerland and France for a few years,[5] he returned to Iran due to difficulties caused by World War I.

Career

In 1915, the ministry of education asked him and other students who returned from Europe to work in Dar al-Fonun as a teacher. Three years later, in 1918, he became the minister of Higher-Teacher House of Iran. He also taught physics in this institute.[6] In September 1928, he accompanied student expedition as head of their elementary education to Paris. In Paris, Hossein Ala' asked him to stay there as Iranian students' administrator and he accepted. While he was the Iranian students' administrator in France, he paid particular attention to their behaviour, causing some students and employees to feel resentment.

In 1935, he has selected as head of higher education of Ministry of Education. After few months he abdicated this position and start working in ministry of economic affairs and finance.[7]

In 1937, he became the governor of Kerman for 9 months.

After resignation of Aliasghar Hekmat from his position, Esmail selected as his successor in July 1938. He officially started his work as minister of education on 20 September 1939. He was in this position till September 1941. Later in 1941, Mohammad Ali Foroughi asked him to return to his position, but he didn't accept because of hard working condition in those days. By Foroughi's insistence, he accepted to work as Minister of health and medical education. He resigned on 12 November 1941.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Esmail Merat". Supreme Council of Education Islamic Republice of Iran (in Persian). Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. ^ Jernudd, Bjorn H.; Michael J. Shapiro (1989). The Politics of language purism. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. p. 96.
  3. ^ Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad (1988). Language Reform Movement and its Language: the Case of Persian.
  4. ^ "Merat, Esmail" (in Persian). Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Esmail Merat". Rijaldb (in Persian). Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  6. ^ "An introduction to Esmail Merat". Noormags (in Persian). Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  7. ^ a b Yaghmaee, Eghbal (1996). Minister of education of Iran. Tehran: Center of university publication. pp. 336_340.

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