Hossein Kazemzadeh
Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranschähr (born January 10, 1884 in Tabriz , † March 18, 1962 in Flawil ) was an Iranian teacher, journalist and mystic.
Life
Hossein Kazemzadeh was born in Tabriz as the son of the doctor HM Kazem. Nothing further is known about the school education of the young Hossein. Hossein Kazemzadeh began his career in 1902 as a teacher at a reform school he founded in Tabriz. In 1904 the school was closed due to the intervention of the Islamic clergy. Kazemzadeh left Iran and from 1905 worked as a secretary at the Iranian Consulate General in Istanbul . At the same time he enrolled at the university there, studied law and graduated with a licentiate .
In 1910 Kazemzadeh enrolled at the Catholic University of Leuven in political and social sciences, where he also graduated with a corresponding degree. From 1912 he studied history, philology, journalism and sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris.
In 1913 Kazemzadeh moved to England to join Edward Granville Browne , one of the leading orientalists of the time. Hossein Kazemzadeh worked for two years as a lecturer in Persian language at Pembroke College of Cambridge University .
After the outbreak of World War I , the German Reich government invited several Persian intellectuals to Berlin to build a nationally minded resistance group. Seyyed Hassan Taqizadeh accepted the invitation, moved to Berlin and, together with Mohammad Ali Jamalzade and Mohammad Ghazvini, edited the magazine Kaveh , which is considered to be one of the best exile magazines ever published. Taqizadeh founded together with other exiled Iranians on January 29, 1917 the " German-Persian Society EV ". Hossein Kazemzadeh initially joined this group of exiles.
When the imperial government stopped financing the group around Hossein Taqizadeh after the end of the war, Taqizadeh, who was also from Tabriz, returned to Iran. While Taqizadeh was politically active in Iran as a member of the Iranian parliament and adviser to Reza Schah Pahlavi , Hossein Kazemzadeh stayed in Berlin and founded the Oriental Zeitschriftenverlag Iranschähr GmbH in 1918 . Kazemzadeh published a monthly Persian-language magazine of the same name and over 20 pamphlets and books that were to have a major influence on the emergence of an Iranian national consciousness. Due to the high level of awareness of his magazine, Hossein Kazemzadeh was soon given the nickname "Iranschähr (Das Land Iran)", which was to become an integral part of the name.
Kazemzadeh experienced the rise of National Socialism in Berlin and left Germany in 1936. At the invitation of the Iranian-Swiss student association, Hossein Kazemzadeh gave a series of lectures at the ETH Zurich . Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranschähr moved to Degersheim SG , Switzerland, and continued his writing there. Instead of nationally oriented writings, he developed a mystically inspired worldview in which he placed divine love and selfless sacrifice at the center of his thinking.
Kazemzadeh gave numerous lectures on cultural problems and the "renewal of the world". In 1942 he founded his own “mystical-esoteric school” and so-called “circles of light”, in which he propagated his idea of a new person and a renewal of the world order.
"As foreseeable, the reconciliation of all religions, the harmonious cooperation of science and religion, the peace of nations and the brotherhood of all earthly inhabitants will characterize the new human culture."
In 1949, Hossein Kazemzadeh founded the monthly “Harmony - For Enlightenment and Harmonization of Life”. A year later he named the magazine “Welt-Harmonie” as a “guide to the harmony of life and world peace”.
In 1957 Hossein Kazemzadeh moved to Flawil SG . He died there in 1962.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ḥusain Kāẓimzāda Īrānšahr in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ HKIranschähr: The new person. Part 1: Advances in Culture. Reprint 1990. HORUS Verlag, p. 4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kazemzadeh, Hossein |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Iranschähr Kazemzadeh, Hossein |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian scientist, publicist and mystic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tabriz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1962 |
| Place of death | Flawil |