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Bozorg Alavi

Died in 1997

Sayyed Mojtaba Alavi, known as Bozorg Alavi, was born in Tehran on 2 February 1904 into a family of merchants involved in the Constitutional Revolution. Having left with his brother for Germany in the early twenties, he studied there, then returned to teach German, first in Shiraz, then in Tehran. A friend of Sadegh Hedayat and close to the Marxist Taqi Arani, he was arrested in 1937 with the group known as the Fifty-Three and remained in prison until 1941, then founded the Tudeh party with others. The coup of 1953 found him in East Berlin, where he taught Persian at Humboldt University and died in 1997.

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