Jabbar Baghtcheban
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Jabbar Baghcheban
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Born |
Jabbar Asgarzadeh
9 May 1886 Yerevan , Russian Empire (now Armenia ) |
Died |
25 November 1966
(1966-11-25)
(aged
80)
Tehran , Iran |
Occupation | Teacher of the deaf |
Children | 3 (including Samin , Samine , Parvane) |
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Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh ( Persian : میرزا جبار عسگرزاده ) famously known as Jabbar Baghcheban ( Persian : جبار باغچهبان ) was an Iranian inventor. He is well known as someone who established the first Iranian kindergarten and the first deaf school in Tabriz . [1] He was also the inventor of Persian language cued speech . He was the father of the late Iranian composer Samin Baghcheban . In total he had three children.
Biography
Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh was born in Yerevan . His grandfather was from Tabriz or Urmia . The first kindergarten he established was called the baghche-ye atfal ( باغچهٔ اطفال ) which means 'children's garden'. That is why he was given the nickname baghcheban ( باغچهبان ) which literally means 'gardener' in the Persian language .
He founded a school for the deaf in 1924, located next to his kindergarten. In 1928 he wrote the first Iranian children's book in Persian. The book was called baba barfi ( بابا برفی ) which means 'snow father' in Persian.
References
- ↑ Guity, Ardavan (April 2022). Esharani Grammatical Sketch: An Initial Description of the Lexicon and Grammar (PhD thesis). Gallaudet University.
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