Parviz Natel-Khanlari

Parviz Natel Khanlari was an Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher, politician, and professor at the University of Tehran.

Biography

Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from the University of Tehran in 1943 with a doctorate degree in Persian literature, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters. He also studied linguistics at the University of Paris for two years. From then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in the University of Tehran.
Apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Khanlari held numerous administrative positions in Iran from the 1960s through the late 1970s.
Parviz Natel Khanlari was the founder and editor of Sokhan magazine, a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from the early 1940s to 1978.