Hossein Gol e Golab, 1895-1985

Hossein Gol-e-Golab (Persian حسین گل‌گلاب also given as Hosayn Golgolab, (1895 – March 13, 1985) was a polymath Iranian scholar and musician who wrote the patriotic anthem Ey Iran.

Gol-e-Golab was born in Tehran, and studied at the Elmiya School and Dar-ul-Funun university,

Gol-e-Golab never lost his interest in music, finding time to translate Western operas into his native Persian while teaching and writing on botany and serving on the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, to which he was appointed 1935.

External links

• Gol-e-Golab bio & history of Ey Iran
• Hossein Golgolab' biography on RKAC
• Gol-e Golāb, Ḥosayn - Iranica Online
• Gol-golāb, Ḥosayn - Iranica Online

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