Farshid Delshad ( fa, فرشید دلشاد) is an affiliated researcher, scholar of
linguistics
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and
Iranian Studies
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. He was Lecturer of Persian and
Comparative Linguistics
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Genetic relatedness ...
at
University of Freiburg
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and at
University of Bern
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. Delshad's first PhD and academic thesis at
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvi ...
in 2000 dealt with Comparative Linguistics and Caucasian Studies.
Delshad received his postdoctoral from
Friedrich Schiller University
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The un ...
in Jena, Germany in Historical-Comparative Linguistics and his thesis was Philological Studies on Iranian and Semitic Loanwords in Classical Georgian. He has further specialized in German and
Indo-Germanic
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linguistics. Since 1994 he has been working as a scholar of
Iranian
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* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
and
comparative linguistics
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Genetic relatedness ...
in Germany, and Switzerland. Farshid Delshad has contributed to minority research, namely religious and ethnic populations in the
Islamic World
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. He has also written extensively on
Intercultural Communication
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and
Sufism
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.
He is also a translator of Russian and Georgian literary works to Persian and vice versa. He is the first Persian translator of
the Knight in the Panther's Skin
''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' ( ka, ვეფხისტყაოსანი, tr literally "the one with the skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th or 13th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustav ...
, a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Georgia's national poet
Shota Rustaveli
Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, c. 1160 – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of th ...
. He worked as a cultural advisor and certified interpreter for the
United Nations
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in Geneva.
Books
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* Georgica et Irano-Semitica, Studies on Iranian and Semitic Loanwords in Classical Georgian, Philological Approaches towards Historical-Comparative Linguistics, Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV) Baden-Baden 2009.
* Chrestomathy of Classical and Modern Persian Prose from 9th to 21st Century with Biographical Surveys, Annotations and a Concise Persian-German Dictionary, Harrasowitz Publishing, Wiesbaden 2007 (New Edition 2009).
* Anthologia Persica, A Selection of Classical and Modern Persian Poetry from 9th to 21st Century, with Biographical Surveys, Annotations and a Concise Persian-German Dictionary, Logos Publishing, Berlin 2007 (New Edition 2009).
* Periodica Persica, Persian Newspaper and Scientific Reading, with Annotations, Exercises and Persian-German Glossary, Logos Publishing, Berlin 2007 (New Edition 2009).
* One Thousand and One Georgian Proverbs (ათასერთი ქართული ანდაზა) with Tea Shurgharia (თეა შურღაია). Bilingual, A Comparative Translation from Georgian, (Persian Title: Hezāro yek żarbolmasal-e gorǧī), Publication of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tehran 2000.
* Shota Rustaveli, Knight in the Panther's Skin, A Georgian National Epic, Translation and Rendering, (Persian Title: Palangīnehpūš), Iran-Jam Publishing House, Tehran 1998.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Freiburg faculty
Iranian linguists
Iranian Jews
Kartvelian studies scholars
Linguists of Persian