Iranian scholar Mahmud Ebadian dies at 85

TEHRAN,April 6(MNA) -- The Iranian scholar and translator Mahmud Ebadian died on April 1. He was 85. He died of natural causes at his home on Monday, his colleague Ali-Asghar Mosleh-Daneshyar told the Persian press. His funeral ceremony was held at the Aljavad Mosque in Tehran on Friday. He laid to rest in the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery on Wednesday. Born in 1928 in Urmia, he taught philosophy at the Allameh Tabatabei University and was a member of the Iranian Academy of Arts. He got his PhD in Philosophy from Charles University in Prague in 1961. He had written and translated over 30 philosophical books during his career. He had translated several books into Persian including “Socrates” by Gottfried Martin, “On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a series of Letters” by Friedrich Schiller and “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” by Ludwig Wittgenstein. “An Introduction to Iranian Contemporary Literature”, “Ferdowsi, Tradition and Modernism in Epic”, “A Selection of Hegel’s Aesthetic”, and “The Portrait of Zoroaster” are among his credits.