Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh

Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh or Mohammad Taghi Daneshpajouh (Persian: محمدتقی دانش‌پژوه‎; born 1911 in Amol and died 1996), was a writer, musician, translator, orientalist and Iranian scholar, a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, professor at the University of Tehran and the father codicology of Iran.

Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh
محمدتقی دانش‌پژوه
Born	(1911-07-05)July 5, 1911 Nandal, Amol, Iran
Died	December 17, 1996(1996-12-17) (aged 85) Tehran, Iran
Burial place	Namavaran Segment, Behesht-e Zahra
Nationality	Iranian
Education	Bachelor of Theology
Alma mater	University of Tehran
Occupation	Translation Writer Encyclopedia Musician Orientalism
Organization	Senate of Iran National Library of Iran Academy of Persian Language and Literature Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies University of Tehran Library, Museum and Document Center of Iran Parliament
Known for	Father Codicology of Iran
Notable work	Dastur al-Muluk Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi
Movement	Farhang Iran Zamin with Manouchehr Sotoudeh, Iraj Afshar, Abbas Zaryab
Children	Dr. Mohammad Danesh Pajouh
Parent(s)	Mirza Ahmad Darkaei Delarestaghi (father)
Awards	Iran's Book of the Year Awards

He entered the Faculty of Law at Tehran University and took his bachelor's degree in 1941. He served for decades as deputy librarian at Tehran of Political Science before joining the Department of History of the Faculty of Theology at that school.[1] In addition to editing and publishing works of others, he authored a number of articles of his own.[2]

He also traveled for obtain bibliographic and manuscript information and to order it from the University of Tehran to Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala and Kazemin in Iraq, Medina and Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Moscow, Leningrad in Russia, Tbilisi, Dushanbe, Tashkent, Bukhara, Samarkand, and Baku in Central Asia, Paris, Munich, Leiden, Utrecht, and Istanbul in Europe and in continues to traveled to Cambridge, Boston, Princeton, Ann Arbermishigan, Chicago and New York in United States.[3] Danesh Pajouh became an honorary member French-Asian Association and Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, for has been honored for its extensive knowledge of Persian texts and for its philosophy, logic, literature, theology, librarianship, and cataloging of oriental manuscripts. He was a professor at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Tehran.[4] Danesh Pajouh together with Iraj Afshar, Manouchehr Sotoudeh, Mostafa Mogharebi and Abbas Zaryab Khoei, founded Farhang Iran Zamin Magazine.[5]