Esmail Merat
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Esmail Merat | |
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اسماعیل مرآت | |
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| Minister of Health | |
| In office 27 August 1941 – 12 November 1941 | |
| Monarch | Mohammad Reza Shah |
| Prime Minister | Mohammad Ali Foroughi |
| Succeeded by | Baqer Kazemi |
| Minister of Education | |
| In office 20 September 1935 – 27 August 1941 | |
| Monarch | Reza Shah |
| Prime Minister | Mahmoud Djam Ahmad Matin-Daftari Ali Mansur |
| Preceded by | Hekmat E Shirazi |
| Succeeded by | Isa Sedigh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 March 1893 |
| Died | 18 December 1949 (aged 56) |
| Resting place | Alijan Garden, Rey, Iran |
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Esmail Merat (Persian: اسماعیل مرآت; 7 March 1893 – 18 December 1949) was Iran's minister of education during Reza Shah's reign. He is the founder of some faculties of University of Tehran, including the law and technical faculties. He has also founded the art section of University of Tehran.
He suggested a change in medical university law, which caused managing Tehran hospital under the medical faculty. In 1956, in respect of his valuable works, a university street was named after him.
He was very eager to publish suitable educational books, which results in more than 200 high school books. The Academy of Persian Language and Literature was another organization which was founded because of his suggestion and due to Reza Shah's command.[2][3]
Esmail was born in September 1939 in Tehran. His father was Mirza Musa Khan Merat ol-mamalek.
He finished his undergraduate education in Tehran before traveling to Europe in 1892 to continue his education.[4] After living in Switzerland and France for a few years,[5] he returned to Iran due to difficulties caused by World War I.