- Hossein Gol-e-Golab
Hossein Gol-e-Golab (Persian حسین گل گلاب also given as "Hosayn Golgolab", (1895 - 1984) was a
polymath Iran ian scholar and musician who wrote the nationalist anthemEy Iran .Gol-e-Golab was born in Tehran, and studied at the
Elmiya School andDarolfonoon . He learned to play both thesetar andtar as a boy. He taught atDar al-Forum and later enrolled at the law school there, earning degrees in law and political science in 1922. However, he displayed a great talent for thenatural science s, especiallybotany , and in 1928 was tenured at the school of medicine. This later became the Faculty of Medicine at the emergingUniversity of Tehran .Gol-e-Golab never lost his interest in music, finding time to translate Western operas into his native Persian while teaching and writing on botany and serving on the
Academy of Persian Language and Literature , to which he was appointed 1935.In 1944, after witnessing an ugly incident where an American soldier serving on the
Persian Corridor beat up a native Iranian greengrocer, Gol-e-Golab composed the poem "Ey Iran", which was set to music byRouhollah Khaleghi and soon be came a "de facto" Iranian national anthem.External links
* [http://isaa.berkeley.edu/eihistory.htm Gol-e-Golab bio & history of Ey Iran]
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