Farshid Delshad

Farshid Delshad
Occupation	Academic, writer, translator, researcher

Farshid Delshad (Persian: فرشید دلشاد ) is an affiliated researcher and scholar of linguistic and Iranian Studies. He was Lecturer of Persian and Comparative Linguistics at University of Freiburg ^[1] and at University of Bern.^[2][3] Delshad's first Phd and academic thesis at Tbilisi State University in 2000 dealt with Comparative Linguistics and Caucasian Studies.^[4]

Delshad received his post Doctoral from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany in Historical-Comparative Linguistics and his thesis was Philological Studies on Iranian and Semitic Loanwords in Classical Georgian,.^[5] He has further specialized in German and Indo-Germanic linguistics.^[6] Since 1994 he has worked as a scholar of Iranian and comparative linguistics in Germany,^[7] and Switzerland.^[8] Farshid Delshad has contributed to minority research,^[9] namely religious ^[10] and ethnic populations in the Islamic World.^[11] He has also written extensively on Intercultural Communication and Sufism.^[12] He is also a translator of Russian and Georgian literary works to Persian and vice versa.^[13] He is the first Persian translator of the Knight in the Panther's Skin, a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli. He worked as a cultural advisor and certified interpreter for the United Nations in Geneva.^[14]

Books

• Persian Reader, Anthology of Modern Persian texts with Introduction and multilingual glossary, Reichert Publishing, Wiesbaden 2015:.^[15][16]
• Interaction of Religion, Morality and Social Work: Suggestions for Clinical Treatment, Based upon Empirical Research, Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft (AVM), Munich 2010:^[17]
• Georgica et Irano-Semitica, Studies on Iranian and Semitic Loanwords in Classical Georgian, Philological Approaches towards Historical-Comparative Linguistics, Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV) Baden-Baden 2009.^[18]
• Chrestomathy of Classical and Modern Persian Prose from 9th to 21st Century with Biographical Surveys, Annotations and a Concise Persian-German Dictionary, Harrasowitz Publishing, Wiesbaden 2007 (New Edition 2009).^[19]
• Anthologia Persica, A Selection of Classical and Modern Persian Poetry from 9th to 21st Century, with Biographical Surveys, Annotations and a Concise Persian-German Dictionary, Logos Publishing, Berlin 2007 (New Edition 2009).^[20]
• Periodica Persica, Persian Newspaper and Scientific Reading, with Annotations, Exercises and Persian-German Glossary, Logos Publishing, Berlin 2007 (New Edition 2009).^[21]
• One Thousand and One Georgian Proverbs (ათასერთი ქართული ანდაზა) with Tea Shurgharia (თეა შურღაია).^[22] Bilingual, A Comparative Translation from Georgian, (Persian Title: Hezāro yek żarbolmasal-e gorǧī), Publication of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tehran 2000.^[23]
• Shota Rustaveli, Knight in the Panther's Skin, A Georgian National Epic, Translation and Rendering, (Persian Title: Palangīnehpūš), Iran-Jam Publishing House, Tehran 1998.^[24]

References

External links

• Official website