Mehrdad Pahlbod
Mehrdad Pahlbod (Persian: مهرداد پهلبد; March 16, 1917 – August 9, 2018) was an Iranian royal and politician who served as the first culture minister of Persia from 1964 until the 1978.[1][2]
Mehrdad Pahlbod | |
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Born | 16 March 1917 Tehran, Persia |
Died | 9 August 2018 101) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged
Spouse | Shams Pahlavi (m. 1945; w. 1996) |
Issue | Prince Shahbaz Prince Shahyar Princess Shahrazad |
Father | Nasrollah Minbashian |
Religion | Catholic Church |
Personal details | |
Alma mater | Firooz Bahram High School University of Lausanne |
Mehrdad Pahlbod, born as Ezatollah Minbashian (Persian: عزت الله مین باشیان), was also the second husband of Princess Shams Pahlavi. The couple secretly converted to Catholic Christianity from shia Islam in the 1950s in Egypt.[3][4][5]
Pahlbod was born in Tehran into the musical family of Minbashian. His father Gholam-Hossein Minbashian, a professional violinist was the conductor of Tehran City Hall Symphony Orchestra (later Tehran Symphony Orchestra) and the director of Tehran Conservatory of Music for years. Pahlbod studied architecture in Switzerland and in the late 1950s became the vice president of the Persian Fine Arts Administration in Tehran; an organisation which later became the Iranian Ministry of Culture.
In the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Pahlbod lived in exile in Los Angeles where he died on 9 August 2018 at the age of 101.[2]
References
- "Oral History Interview: Mehrdad Pahlbod". FIS. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- "مهرداد پهلبد، وزیر فرهنگ و هنر دوران پهلوی و داماد رضا شاه، در لُس آنجلس درگذشت". fa.rfi.fr (in Persian). 2018-08-10.
- ʿAlam, Asad Allāh (14 August 1991). "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1969-1977". I. B. Tauris. Retrieved 14 August 2018 – via Google Books.
- Sachs, Joel (11 July 2012). "Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 August 2018 – via Google Books.
- "مؤسسه مطالعات تاريخ معاصر ايران IICHS". www.iichs.org. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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