Zakir Hussain (politician)
Zakir Hussain ( Urdu ذاکِر حسین, Telugu జాకీర్ హుస్సైన్ ; * February 8, 1897 in Farrukhabad , Hyderabad State , today Andhra Pradesh ; † May 3, 1969 in New Delhi ) was an Indian educator and politician . He was President of the Republic of India from 1967 to 1969.
Life
The son of Muslim parents came from a Pashtun family from Farrukhabad . He studied education and economics in Aligarh and received his doctorate in 1926 at the University of Berlin with a thesis on the pedagogue Georg Kerschensteiner . During this time he also published The Message of Mahatma Gandhi in a German publisher.
Zakir Hussain had been one of the initiators of the establishment of the Islamic University Jamia Millia Islamia since 1923 , of which he was rector from 1926 to 1948. From 1948 to 1956 he was Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University .
From 1957 to 1962, Sakir Hussain was governor of Bihar . In 1962 he took over the office of Vice President of India . The Congress Party nominated Zakir Hussain as its candidate for the presidential election in India in 1967 . Zakir Hussain was the first Muslim candidate for this office. He was elected President of India on May 6, 1967. He died after only two years in office.
literature
- Z̤iāʼulḥasan Fārūqī: Dr. Zakir Hussain, quest for truth - Biography of Zakir Husain . APH Publishing, 1999, ISBN 978-81-7648-056-7 , pp. 382 (English, books.google.com ).
- Zakir Husain , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 24/1969 of June 2, 1969, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
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SURNAME | Hussain, Zakir |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zakir Hussain Khan; Zakir Husain |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian politician and president |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Farrukhabad , Hyderabad State |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd May 1969 |
Place of death | New Delhi |