Jabbar Baghtcheban

Jabbar Baghcheban
BornJabbar Asgarzadeh
9 May 1886
Yerevan, Russian Empire (now Armenia)
Died25 November 1966(1966-11-25) (aged 80)
Tehran, Iran
OccupationTeacher of the deaf
Children3 (including Samin, Samine, Parvane)
Website
www.baghcheban.net

Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh (Persian: میرزا جبار عسگرزاده) famously known as Jabbar Baghcheban (Persian: جبار باغچه‌بان) was an Iranian inventor. He is well known as someone who established the first Iranian kindergarten and the first deaf school in Tabriz.[1] He was also the inventor of Persian language cued speech. He was the father of the late Iranian composer Samin Baghcheban. In total he had three children.

  1. ^ Guity, Ardavan (April 2022). Esharani Grammatical Sketch: An Initial Description of the Lexicon and Grammar (PhD thesis). Gallaudet University. doi:10.1075/sll.00077.gui.