Mandegar Alborz High School ( fa, دبیرستان ماندگار البرز) is a college-preparatory

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located in the heart of

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. It is one of the first modern high schools in Asia and the Middle East, named after the

Alborz The Alborz ( fa, البرز) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs nort ...

mountain range, north of Tehran. Its place in the shaping of Iran's intellectual elite compares with that of

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in England and institutions such as

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, and

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in the United States.

History

The school was founded as an elementary school in 1873 by a group of

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missionaries led by James Bassett. This was in the 26th year of the reign of

Nasereddin Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ( fa, ناصرالدین‌شاه قاجار; 16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek ...

Qajar, 22 years after

Amir Kabir Mirza Taghi Khan-e Farahani ( fa, میرزا تقی‌خان فراهانی), better known as Amir Kabir (Persian: ‎, 9 January 1807 – 10 January 1852), also known by the title of ''Amir-e Nezam'' or ''Amir Nezam'' (), was chief minister t ...

founded the Dar ul-Funun school in Tehran, and 33 years before the Constitutional Revolution in Persia (as it was known back then; later it became "Iran" during the Reza Shah Era). When Dr.

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arrived in Persia in 1898, he instituted change; subsequently, Alborz became a 12-year elementary and secondary school, with its share of college courses. Thereafter, the institution came to be known as the American College of Tehran.Lorentz, J. ''Historical Dictionary of Iran''. 1995. ISBN Dr. Jordan remained president of Alborz for 42 years (1899–1940). During his tenure, Alborz grew from an elementary school to a high school and college. In 1932, the school received a permanent charter from the Board of Regents of the

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In 1940 and during

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, by the order of

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Reza Pahlavi, Alborz was removed from American management and placed under the auspices of the Iranian Ministry of Education as part of Reza Shah's modernization reforms. The school's name was changed from "''College''" back to "''Alborz''", and it was reinstated as a high school. In 1944, Professor

Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi Dr. Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi Gilani (23 September 1908 – 1 July 1997) was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran. Founder of Sharif University of Technology (origi ...

, member of

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's faculty, was appointed as the president of Alborz. From then until 1979, and continuing after the

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, Alborz had the most successful period of its history.

Alborz Principals/Deans

* Mr. Howard (1873–1889) * Dr. Samuel M. Jordan (1899–1940) * Mr. Mohammad Vahid Tonekaboni (1940–1941) * Mr. Mohsen Haddad (1941) * Mr. Ali Mohammad Partovi (1941–1942) * Mr. Hasan Zoghi (1942–1943) * Mr. Lotf Ali Sooratgar (1943–1944) * Dr.

(1944–1978) * Mr. Hossein Khoshnevisan (1978–1979) * Mr. Hasan Pour Zahed (1979–1980) * Mr. Naser Naseri (1980–1981) * Mr. Ismael Sadegh Kazemi (1981–1985) * Mr. Rajab Ali Yasipour (1985–1986) * Mr. Naser Molla Asadollah (1986) * Mr. Ali Mazarei (1986–1988) * Mr. Abbas Feiz (1988–1989) * Mr. Hossein Khoshnevisan (1989–1991) * Mr. Bagher Dezfulian (1991–1997) * Mr. Mahmoud Dastani (1998–1999) * Mr. Valiollah Sanaye (1999–2007) * Dr. Mazaher Hami Kargar (2007–2011) * Dr. Abeth Esfandiar (2011–2012) * Mr. Mohammad Mohammadi (2012–present)

Notable Alborz Deans

* Dr.

Mahmoud Behzad Professor Mahmoud Behzad ( fa, محمود بهزاد, b. 1913 - d. 2007), born in Rasht, the capital city of Gilan province, is known as the father of modern biology in Iran. He wrote more than 100 books in Persian and participated in the author ...

Notable alumni

Politicians

Mostafa Chamran Mostafa Chamran Save'ei ( fa, مصطفی چمران ساوه‌ای) (2 October 1932 – 21 June 1981) was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran ...

(1932–1981), minister of

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and chief of

Islamic Revolution Guard Corps The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...

(IRGC) *

Amir Farshad Ebrahimi Amir Farshad Ebrahimi ( fa, امیر فرشاد ابراهیمی ) (born August 14, 1975) is a former member of Ansar-e Hezbollah. Ansar-e Hezbollah used violence against students but Ebrahimi decided, "No, Ansar-e Hezbollah is wrong, you the ...

(born 1975), political activist *

Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou ( ku, عه‌بدولڕه‌حمان قاسملوو, translit=Ebdulrehman Qasimlû; fa, عبدالرحمان قاسملو; 22 December 1930 – 13 July 1989) was an Iranian Kurdish politician and leader. Ghassemlou was t ...

(1930–1989),

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political activist *

Mansoor Hekmat Mansoor Hekmat ( fa, منصور حکمت, born Zhoobin Razani fa, ژوبین رازانی; June 4, 1951 - July 4, 2002) was an Iranian Marxist theorist, revolutionary and leader of the Worker-communist movement. He opposed the Shah and, after the ...

(1951–2002), political activist *

Dariush Homayoon Daryoush Homayoun ( fa, داریوش همایون; 19282011) was an Iranian journalist, author, intellectual, and politician. He was the Minister of Information and Tourism in the cabinet of Jamshid Amouzegar, founder of the daily newspaper ''Aya ...

(1928–2011), minister of Information and Tourism * Ali Javadi (born 1953), political activist * Ataollah Khosravani, politician *

Mostafa Mirsalim Sayyid Mostafa Agha Mirsalim (born 10 June 1947) is an Iranian engineer and conservative politician. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council and also a member of Islamic Consultative Assembly. He was a presidential candidate ...

(born 1947), politician *

Tahmasb Mazaheri Tahmasb Mazaheri ( fa, طهماسب مظاهری) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian politician who served as the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (Iran), Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance between 2001 and 2004, and then held office as ...

(born 1953), politician *

Reza Moridi Reza Moridi ( fa, رضا مریدی; born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Richmond Hill. He served as a cabinet ministe ...

, politician *

Alireza Nourizadeh Ali Reza Nourizadeh ( fa, علیرضا نوری‌زاده, born 24 June 1949 in Tehran) is an Iranian scholar, literary figure, journalist, political activist and an expert on Iranian contemporary history. Career Nourizadeh is a political refu ...

(born 1949), journalist and political activist * Parviz C. Radji (1936–2014), Iranian ambassador to the United Kingdom * Mohsen Sazegara (born 1955), journalist and political activist

Military personnel

* Mohammad Amir Khatam (1918–1975), commander in chief of

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(IIAF) (1958–1975)

Scholars

* Solayman Haïm (1887–1970), lexicographer and translator *

Manouchehr Sotoudeh Manouchehr Sotoudeh ( fa, منوچهر ستوده, 19 July 1913 – 8 April 2016) was an Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature. He wrote 60 books and nearly 300 articles. He is the first Iranian who published the first dialecta ...

(1913–2016), professor of geography *

(1914–2007), professor of biology * Sadeq Chubak (1916–1998), author *

Lotfi A. Zadeh Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (; az, Lütfi Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə; fa, لطفی علی‌عسکرزاده; 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, an ...

(1921–2017), mathematician and professor of computer science *

Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub Dr. Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub ( fa, محمدجعفر محجوب) (23 August 1924 – 17 February 1996) was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature, essayist, translator and teacher. Life Dr. Mahjoub was born in Tehran in 1924 and gradu ...

(1924–1996), author and translator * Homayoun Sanaatizadeh (1925–2009), author, translator and entrepreneur *

Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan ( fa, محمدعلی اسلامی ندوشن; 25 August 1924 – 25 April 2022) was an Iranian literary critic, translator and poet, and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers on culture and literature in ...

(born 1925), poet and author *

Ali Javan Ali Javan ( fa, علی جوان, Ali Javān; December 26, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was an Iranian-American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successf ...

(1926–2016), physicist *

Bijan Jalali Bijan Jalali ( fa, بیژن جلالی; 1927 – January 2000) was a modern Persian poet. Jalali was born in Tehran, Iran. His works include: The Color of Water, Days, Dailies, Our Heart and the World, Play of Light, and The Water and the Su ...

(1927–2009), poet * Manuchehr Jamali (1928–2012), philosopher and poet * Mohammad Qahraman (1929–2013), poet * Jamshid Giunashvili (1931–2017), linguist, Iranologist, diplomat, author and researcher * Mehdi Zarghamee, professor of computer science * Rahim Rahmanzadeh (born 1934), surgeon *

Firouz Partovi Firouz was a wealthy Armenians, Armenian Christians, Christian convert to Islam and armor maker who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkish government during the Crusades. Notably, he also served as a spy for Bohemond I of A ...

(born 1936), physicist *

Dariush Ashoori Daryoush Ashouri ( fa, داریوش آشوری, born August 2, 1938, in Tehran) is a prominent Iranian thinker, author, translator, researcher, and public intellectual. He lives in Paris, France. Work He studied at the Faculty of Law, Political ...

(born 1938), author and translator *

Iraj Kaboli Iraj Kaboli ( fa, ایرج کابلی; 12 April 1938 – 17 February 2021) was an Iranian writer, linguist and translator. Biography Iraj was born in 1938 in a Zoroastrian family in Kerman. He came to Tehran for his high school and pursued his ...

(born 1938), author and translator * Paris Moayedi (born 1938), entrepreneur *

Hossein Amanat Hossein Amanat ( fa, حسین امانت, born 1942) is an Iranian-Canadian architect. He is best known for being the architect of the Shahyad Tower (renamed as Azadi Tower after the 1979 revolution) in Tehran, Iran, the Baháʼí Arc buildin ...

(born 1942), architect *

Homayoun Katouzian Homa Katouzian ( Persian: همايون کاتوزیان; born Homayoun Katouzian on 17 November 1942) is an economist, historian, sociologist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. Katouzian's formal academic training ...

(born 1942), historian and political scientist *

Saeed Sohrabpour Saeed Sohrabpour ( fa, سعيد سهراب پور ), (born in 1943 in Tehran), full professor Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, has been the vice president and chief adviser of Islamic Republic of Iran’s Nati ...

(born 1943), professor of mechanical engineering * Foad Rafii (born 1947), architect *

Freydoon Shahidi Freydoon Shahidi (born June 19, 1947) is an Iranian American mathematician who is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in the U.S. He is known for a method of automorphic L-functions which is now known as the Langlands–S ...

(born 1947), mathematician * Mehrdad Abedi (born 1948), professor of electrical engineering *

Caro Lucas Caro Lucas Ghukasian ( hy, Կարո Լուկաս Ղուկասեան); ( fa, کارو لوکاس قوکاسیان; September 4, 1949 – July 8, 2010) was an Iranian Armenian scientist. His many areas of contribution to Iranian scientific society ...

(1949–2010), scientist *

Abbas Edalat Abbas Edalat ( fa, عباس عدالت) is a British-Iranian academic who is a professor of computer science and mathematics at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London and a political activist. In a 2018 letter to The Guardian, 1 ...

, professor of computer sciences *

Ali Parsa Ali Parsadoust (commonly known as Ali Parsa) is a Iranians in the United Kingdom, British-Iranian healthcare entrepreneur and former investment banker. He is the founder and CEO of digital healthcare company Babylon Health and the co-founder and fo ...

(born 1951), translator * Houchang E. Chehabi (born 1954), professor of international relations and history *

Cumrun Vafa Cumrun Vafa ( fa, کامران وفا ; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. Early life and education Cumrun Vafa was born in Tehran ...

(born 1960), string theorist *

Farzad Nazem Farzad Nazem ( fa, فرزاد ناظم; born 1961), also known as Zod Nazem, was Yahoo!'s chief technology officer and one of its longest-serving executives. On May 30, 2007, at age 46, he announced that he would retire and leave Yahoo! in June ...

(born 1960), former CTO of

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Houman Younessi Houman Younessi (28 May 1963 – 23 March 2016) was an Kurdish-American educator, practitioner, consultant and investigator in informatics, large scale software development processes, computer science, decision science, molecular biology and f ...

(1963-2016), professor of computer science *

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (born October 1963) is an Iranian-American physician doing research in nephrology, kidney dialysis, nutrition, and epidemiology. He is best known as a specialist in kidney disease nutrition and chronic kidney disease and f ...

(born 1963), scientist and

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

* Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh (born 1971), scientist and inventor *

Mehdi Yahyanejad Mehdi Yahyanejad (born 1975) is a tech entrepreneur who founded Balatarin.com, a news sharing website in Persian in 2006. Balatarin has been blocked by the Iranian government in Iran and has been the target of hacking and DDOS attacks by the Iran ...

, entrepreneur *

Ramin Golestanian Ramin Golestanian ( fa, رامین گلستانیان) is a professor at the Department of Physics and thRudolf Peierls Centrefor Theoretical Physics at Oxford University. He is a fellow of St Cross College and is affiliated with thOxford Centre ...

, theoretical physicist * David and Paul Merage, entrepreneurs and philanthropists

Artists

Homayoun Khorram Ostad Homayoun Khorram ( fa, همایون خرم), (June 30, 1930 – January 17, 2013) was an Iranian musician, composer, violinist, and a member of the high council of Iran's house of music. Khorram began his music career as a violinist at the ...

(1930–2013), musician *

Jamshid Mashayekhi Jamshid Mashayekhi ( fa, جمشید مشایخی , November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019) was an Iranian actor. Career Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was ''Brick and Mirror ''(1965, Ebrahim Golest ...

(1934–2019), actor *

Khosrow Sinai Khosrow Sinai ( fa, خسرو سینایی , 19 January 1941 – 1 August, 2020) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, composer, poet and scholar. Sinai's work was influenced by documentaries and focused on social and artistic subjects. ...

(born 1941), film director * Siavash Ghomeishi (born 1945), musician, singer and

song writer A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

* Amir Parvin Hosseini (born 1967), film producer * Behzad Abdi (born 1973), musician

Athletes

Abbas Ekrami Dr.Abbas Ekrami ( fa, عباس اکرامی) is a former Iranian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form o ...

(1915–2001), football manager * Hossein Parsi (2003–present), Karate coach

Media figures

Adel Ferdosipour Adel Ferdosipour ( fa, عادل فردوسی‌پور; born 3 October 1974), is an Iranian journalist, football commentator, translator, university professor and television show host and producer. He was the host and producer of the popular TV sho ...

(born 1974), football commentator Alborz hschool pano 1 (cropped)

References

External links

* {{Iran–United States relations School buildings completed in 1873 Educational institutions established in 1873 High schools in Iran Architecture in Iran Schools in Tehran Iran–United States relations 1873 establishments in Iran International schools in Tehran