Fakhreddin Shadman
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1907
Fakhreddin Shadman | |
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| Born | Fakhreddin Shadman Valari 1907 Tehran, Qajar Iran |
| Died | 26 August 1967 (aged 59–60) London, United Kingdom |
| Title | Professor |
| Spouse | Farangis Namazi |
| Father | Hājj Sayyed Abu Torab |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Thesis | The Relations of Britain and Persia, 1800-15 (1939) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Kingsley Webster |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
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| Institutions | University of Tehran |
Fakhreddin Shadman (Persian: فخرالدین شادمان; 1907 – 26 August 1967), also known as Fakhreddin Shadman Valari, was a leading scholar, writer and statesman of the Pahlavi era. He was a faculty member at the University of Tehran. He also held various cabinet posts in 1948 and in 1953–1954.
Shadman was born in Tehran in 1907 into a family composed of clerics.[1] His father, Hājj Sayyed Abu Torab, was a cleric.[1] He was the eldest child of his parents and had five brothers and one sister.[1]
Shadman completed his secondary education at the Darolfonun school in Tehran.[2] He attended the Teachers Training College where he graduated in 1925 and had a degree from the School of Law in Tehran in 1927.[1] He received a PhD in history from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1939.[1] Charles Kingsley Webster was his advisor,[3] and his thesis was entitled The Relations of Britain and Persia, 1800-15.[4]
