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

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located in the heart of

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

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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 Milton Academy in the United States.

History

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

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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 Mal ...

Qajar, 22 years after Amir Kabir 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. Samuel Jordan 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 Reza Pahlavi may refer to: * Reza Shah (1878–1944), Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran from 1925 until 1941 * Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980), Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979, son of Reza Shah * Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pah ...

, 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, 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 Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan (1871 – 1952) was an American presbyterian missionary in Persia (Iran). He is sometimes referred to as the "father of modern education in Iran".John H. Lorentz, ''Historical Dictionary of Iran'' (Scarecrow Press, La ...

(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. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi (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

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 National Defence and chief of Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) * Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (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), Kurdish political activist * Mansoor Hekmat (1951–2002), political activist * Dariush Homayoon (1928–2011), minister of Information and Tourism *

Ali Javadi Ali Javadi (born 1953) is an Iranian political Communist activist living in exile. He is one of the main founders and theoreticians of the Worker-Communism Unity Party of Iran. In December 2006, while Javadi was part of the Central Committee f ...

(born 1953), political activist *

Ataollah Khosravani Ataollah Khosravani (1919–date of death unknown) was an Iranian politician. He served as the secretary-general of Iran Novin Party and held several cabinet posts in the 1960s. Early life and education Khosravani was born in Tehran in 1919. He ...

, politician * Mostafa Mirsalim (born 1947), politician *

Tahmasb Mazaheri Tahmasb Mazaheri ( fa, طهماسب مظاهری) is an Iranian politician who served as the Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance between 2001 and 2004, and then held office as the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran from 2007 to 2008. Ca ...

(born 1953), politician *

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, 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 Parviz Camran Radji (16 October 1936, Tehran – 23 March 2014, London)Mohsen Sazegara (born 1955), journalist and political activist

Military personnel

Mohammad Amir Khatam Arteshbod Mohammad Amir Khatami ( fa, محمدامیر خاتمی) (1920 – 12 September 1975), CVO, was the commander of the Imperial Iranian Air Force, advisor to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the second husband of Fatemeh Pahlavi, half-s ...

(1918–1975), commander in chief of

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(IIAF) (1958–1975)

Scholars

Solayman Haïm Solayman Haïm (also Soleyman or Soleiman), who appears in dictionaries in English under the name Sulayman Hayyim ( fa, سلیمان حییم) ( in Tehran, Iran – February 14, 1970 in Tehran), was an Iranian lexicographer, translator, play ...

(1887–1970), lexicographer and translator * Manouchehr Sotoudeh (1913–2016), professor of geography * Mahmoud Behzad (1914–2007), professor of biology *

Sadeq Chubak Sādeq Chubak ( fa, صادق چوبک, sometimes Sādegh Choubak; August 5, 1916 July 3, 1998), was an Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels. His short stories are characterized by their intricacy, economy of detail, and concentrati ...

(1916–1998), author * Lotfi A. Zadeh (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 Homayoun Sanaatizadeh ( fa, همایون صنعتی زاده; 1925 in Tehran – 2009 in Kerman, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by ...

(1925–2009), author, translator and entrepreneur * Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan (born 1925), poet and author * Ali Javan (1926–2016), physicist * Bijan Jalali (1927–2009), poet *

Manuchehr Jamali Manuchehr Jamali (7 January 1929–5 July 2012) was a dissident Persian philosopher and poet. He is best known for his exposition and analysis of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi ( fa, ; 940 – 1019/1025 CE), also Firdawsi ...

(1928–2012), philosopher and poet *

Mohammad Qahraman Mohammad Qahramān (Persian: محمد قهرمان, sometimes romanized as Mohammad Ghahraman or Ghahreman; born 1 July 1929, died 18 May 2013) was a Persian-language poet, scholar, and editor from Khorasan. Biography Qahraman was born in the ...

(1929–2013), poet *

Jamshid Giunashvili Jamshid Giunashvili ( ka, ჯემშიდ გიუნაშვილი; 1 May 1931 – 21 January 2017) was a Georgian linguist, Iranologist, researcher, author, and diplomat, having served as the first ambassador of Georgia to Iran for a ...

(1931–2017), linguist, Iranologist, diplomat, author and researcher *

Mehdi Zarghamee Dr. Mehdi Shaghaghi Zarghamee ( fa, مهدی شقاقی ضرغامی) is a former Chancellor of Arya Mehr University of Technology (currently Sharif University of Technology) in Iran, former professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer S ...

, professor of computer science * Rahim Rahmanzadeh (born 1934), surgeon * Firouz Partovi (born 1936), physicist * Dariush Ashoori (born 1938), author and translator * Iraj Kaboli (born 1938), author and translator *

Paris Moayedi Paris Moayedi (1938–2023) was the entrepreneur who expanded Jarvis plc from a small construction business into one of the UK's largest engineering contractors. Career Born in Iran, brought up in the Mount Damavand area, and educated at Albor ...

(born 1938), entrepreneur * Hossein Amanat (born 1942), architect * Homayoun Katouzian (born 1942), historian and political scientist * Saeed Sohrabpour (born 1943), professor of mechanical engineering *

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(born 1947), architect * Freydoon Shahidi (born 1947), mathematician *

Mehrdad Abedi Mehrdad Abedi ( مهرداد عابدی،; born 1948) is an electrical engineer and electric machinery researcher and professor of power engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology. Life and career Abedi was born in 1948 in Tehran, ...

(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, professor of computer sciences * Ali Parsa (born 1951), translator *

Houchang E. Chehabi Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi is a scholar of Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where he is Professor of International Relations and History. Chehabi is Iranian-German and was born in Tehran, I ...

(born 1954), professor of international relations and history * Cumrun Vafa (born 1960),

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theorist * Farzad Nazem (born 1960), former CTO of

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* Houman Younessi (1963-2016), professor of computer science * Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (born 1963), scientist and

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(born 1971), scientist and inventor * Mehdi Yahyanejad, entrepreneur * Ramin Golestanian, theoretical physicist * David and Paul Merage, entrepreneurs and philanthropists

Artists

* Homayoun Khorram (1930–2013), musician * Jamshid Mashayekhi (1934–2019), actor * Khosrow Sinai (born 1941), film director *

Siavash Ghomeishi Siavash Ghomayshi ( fa, سیاوش قمیشی; born 11 June 1945, Ahvaz) is an Iranian musician, singer and song writer. Siavash studied music in London where he got his master's degree. He left Iran in 1978 and now lives in Los Angeles. Over t ...

(born 1945), musician, singer and song writer * Amir Parvin Hosseini (born 1967), film producer *

Behzad Abdi Behzad Abdi (born 1973, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian composer of opera, film, and television music. Abdi studied setar and Iranian traditional music. His opera "Rumi" from 2009, based on the life of Rumi, with libretto by Behrouz Gharibourm, a ...

(born 1973), musician

Athletes

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

Media figures

* Adel Ferdosipour (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