Esmail Merat

Esmail Merat
اسماعیل مرآت
Minister of Health
In office
27 August 1941 – 12 November 1941
MonarchMohammad Reza Shah
Prime MinisterMohammad Ali Foroughi
Succeeded byBaqer Kazemi
Minister of Education
In office
20 September 1935 – 27 August 1941
MonarchReza Shah
Prime MinisterMahmoud Djam
Ahmad Matin-Daftari
Ali Mansur
Preceded byHekmat E Shirazi
Succeeded byIsa Sedigh
Personal details
Born(1893-03-07)7 March 1893
Tehran, Iran
Died18 December 1949(1949-12-18) (aged 56)
New York City, United States[1]
Resting placeAlijan Garden, Rey, Iran
Parent
  • Mirza Musa Khan Meratolmamalek (father)

Esmail Merat (Persian: اسماعیل مرآت‎; March 7, 1893 – December 18, 1949) was Iran's minister of education during Reza Shah reign. He is founder of some faculties of university of Tehran, including law faculty and technical faculty. He has also founded art section of University of Tehran.

He suggested a change in medical university law, which caused managing Tehran hospital under medical faculty. In 1956, in respect of his valuable works, one of university streets named to his name.

He was very eager to publish suitable educational books, which results in more than 200 high school books. Founding Academy of Persian Language and Literature was another organization which founded because of his suggestion and due to Reza Shah command.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Esmail Merat". Supreme Council of Education Islamic Republice of Iran (in Persian). Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. ^ Jernudd, Bjorn H.; Michael J. Shapiro (1989). The Politics of language purism. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. p. 96.
  3. ^ Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad (1988). Language Reform Movement and its Language: the Case of Persian.