Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh () famously known as Jabbar Baghcheban () was an Iranian inventor. He is well known for establishing the first

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ian

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and the first deaf school in

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. He was also the inventor of

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. Baghtcheban was the father of the late Iranian composer Samin Baghcheban. In total he had three children.

Biography

Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh was born in

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. The first kindergarten he established was called the () which means 'children's garden'. That is why he was given the nickname () which literally means 'gardener' in the

. He founded a school for the deaf in 1924, located next to his kindergarten. In 1928 he wrote the first Iranian children's book in Persian. The book was called () which means 'snow father' in Persian.

References

1886 births 1966 deaths Iranian educators Language teachers 20th-century Iranian inventors Writers from Yerevan People involved with sign language People from Tabriz Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Iran Educators of the deaf {{Iran-bio-stub