Saleh Shirazi

Mirza Saleh Shirazi ( Persian میرزا صالح شیرازی), (* 1790 in Kazerun ; † 1845 ), was a Persian ambassador and publisher .

Life

Saleh Shirazi had met the British ambassador Gore Ouseley , the father of Frederick Ouseley , in Tehran . He studied Hebrew to publish the New Testament in Persia. In 1814 Ouseley went to Saint Petersburg with Mirza Saiyad Ali Khan . There Saiyad Ali wrote the New Testament in Persian in Hebrew letters in 1815 . Fath Ali Shah received a copy of the work at Ouseley's instigation. He thanked Ouseley in a letter.

In 1815 Saleh Shirazi was sent to London with Abbas Mirza's delegation , where Saleh Shirazi remained as envoy until 1823. In addition to his work as a diplomat, Mirza Salih Shirazi used his stay in London and studied from 1815 to 1819 at the University of Oxford . On the side he learned the profession of printer , because he was thinking of introducing modern letterpress printing in Iran. As early as 1819 he opened a printing house in Tabriz

With the help of a chaplain of the British East India Company , Rev. Henry Martyn, BD (February 18, 1781 - October 16, 1812), Mirza Saiyad Ali Khan revised his Persian translation of the New Testament and now published it with Persian characters. In 1837, Saleh Shirazi published the monthly Akhbar during the reign of Mohammed Shah .

Publications

• Safar-Nameh (Journal de Voyage), éd. Esmāʿīl Rāʾīn, Téhéran 1968.
• Mirza Salih composed a set of dialogues in Persian which were published in William Price 'A Grammar of the Three Principal Oriental Languages.
• Majmu 'eh-ye safarnameh-ye Mirza Saleh Shirazi (Tehran: Nashr-e Iran, 1364/1985)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Needham Cust, Linguistic and oriental essays : Written from the year [1840 to 1903]., Volume 4, Trübner & Co., 1895 p. 549; Henry Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies, Bulletin of the Henry Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies, Vol. 53-56 , 1964, p. 31
2. ↑ http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/58497/1/qalan_1.pdf
3. ↑ Frankfurter Postzeitung , 1823, [1]

predecessor	Office	successor
Abolhassan Khan Ilchi	Persian Ambassador to London 1815 to 1823	Muhsin Khan