Levon Davidian

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Levon Davidian ( Armenian ԼԵՒՈՆ ԴԱՒԹԵԱՆ Persian لئون داویدیان* March 24, 1944 in Tehran ; † July 15, 2009 near Jannatabad ) was an Iranian psychiatrist and politician.

Life

Davidian first attended a school in Tehran and then began studying in 1962 at the medical faculty of the local Shahid Beheschti University . In 1978 he received his doctorate in psychiatry. He belonged to the Armenian minority in Iran and represented them in parliament from 2000 to 2004 . He was a long-time deputy member of parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was a prominent figure in his homeland. Davidian was one of 168 people on board Caspian Airlines flight 7908 that crashed on a field on July 15, 2009. He died in the crash, leaving at least two children, a daughter who lives in the United States and a son in Iran.

Publications (selection)

  • Javad Nurbakhsh, Levon Davidian, Hamideh Jahangiri: Handbook of Psychiatry . tape 4 . Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken 2019, ISBN 978-6-20031590-8 .

literature

  • A. van Amerongen: Eerst Iraniër, daarna pas jood. In: Reformatory Dagblad. February 18, 2000 ( digibron.nl ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ برایاسامی کشته شدگان هواپیمای توپولف سقوط کرده در اطراف قزوین mehrnews.com ( Memento from July 21, 2009 on the Internet Archive ) No. 28 on the list.
  2. ↑ a b Transcription on reporter.am ( Memento from July 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Kourosh Rahimkhani: Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook . Syracuse University Press, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-8156-5432-2 , pp. 221 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  4. ↑ Veronica Rocha: Families stunned by crash . In: Los Angeles Times . July 16, 2009 (American English, latimes.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Davidian, Levon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian psychiatrist and politician, member of parliament for the Armenian minority
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2009
Place of death near Jannatabad