Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi

Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi محمد علی مجتهدی
Born	September 23, 1908(1908-09-23) Lahijan, Iran
Died	July 1, 1997(1997-07-01) (aged 88) Nice, France
Citizenship	Iran  France
Nationality	Iranian
Fields	Professor
Institutions	Alborz High School
Alma mater	University of Lille University of Paris
Known for	Mathematics Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi (23 September 1908 – 1 July 1997) was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran.

Founder of Sharif University of Technology (originally Aryamehr Technical University) and dean of Tehran Polytechnic University (currently renamed to Amirkabir University of Technology). Memoirs of Mohammad-Ali Modjtahedi (Persian) 2000 were published as part of Harvard University's Iranian Oral History Project, editor Habib Ladjevardi. ISBN 964-7359-10-1

Life

He was born in Lahijan, Guilan in the northern part of Iran. He started his elementary school at the age of seven at Haghighat school after which he came to Tehran to continue his education at the Daar-Ol-Moallemin-E-Markazi in 1925. He finished high school at Madrese-Motevasete in the eastern part of Tehran and received his high school diploma in 1931. In 1932, among 100 other prominent students, he was sent to France for higher education. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Université Lille Nord de France in 1935 and his doctorate at the Paris-Sorbonne University in 1938. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1938.^[1]

References

1. ^ Memoirs of M.A. Modjtahedi

References

Academic offices
Preceded by Lotfali Sooratgar	Principal of Alborz High School 1944-1979	Succeeded by Hossein Khoshnevisan
Preceded by None	Chancellor of Sharif University of Technology 1965–1968	Succeeded by Fazlollah Reza
Preceded by Habib Nafisi	Chancellor of Tehran Polytechnic ?	Succeeded by Kayvan Najmabadi

Persondata
Name	Modjtahedi, Mohammad Ali
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Short description
Date of birth	23 September 1908
Place of birth	Lahijan, Iran
Date of death	1 July 1997
Place of death	Nice, France