Biography of Mohammad Ali JAMALZADEH

Language is the boiling water. Source must be clean and strong.as if any dust enters, river itself can destroy it. And it is depends on our young people who should have strong, accurate and fresh talent. Understanding the forces that are reasonable, prudent and sound. Thought to promote. Basically have principle faith. Drank and ate our own water and grass plants. It is certain that we cannot close the gates of country to new ideas and if we do so we betrayed ourselves, our country and civilization. But we must not accept other ideas unreasonably .as we bring cloth from England and take it to tailor to fit the taste of our stature to sew clothes for us, we have to accept the ideas which are for development of fellow citizens and spiritually are useful and appropriate.
These were the words of late MHAMMAD ALI JAMALZADEH, on the relationship between our culture and way of assimilating the culture of the modern west. This is one of the concerns of our scientists, scholars and researchers in recent century. And of course JAMALZADEH as a scholar, researcher, translator and contemporary historian who lived in the world more than a century. He had great effort to it. He was one of the thinkers who were not believing in pure integration in west or being extreme nationalist.
JAMALZADEH, became famous with the release of one story, one not. Since then he became the father of modern short story writer. But his works are not limited to writings but also covers other areas, such as translation, criticism and research on folklore and history.
His life,
JAMALZADEH was born on 1892, in Isfahan city. His father, SEYED JAMAL VAEZ was from SADAR great family, who had LEBANESE descent. SEYED was one of the famous preachers of his time and his role in the constitutional movement with people like MALEKAL MOTEKALEMIN, AYATOLLAH BEHBAHANI and TABATABAEE is mentioned. SEYED activities were so important that made him constitutional speaker. As a teenager JAMALZADEH watched many major historical events. He mentioned about freedom fighters with details later.
The most important influence of his father was interest in rhetorical, narrative and simple writing. This style came from listening to sermons by father in childhood because, according to those who were close to SEYED, he was not using complex language, but the language which was understandable by common people.
When JAMALZADEH was 16, with the escalation of political conflicts on the advice of father went to BEIRUT, LEBANON to a high school that
was run under LAZARYST priests. 6 months later, his dear
father was killed by opponents. This death was certainly painful loss for him. But he continued his education in secondary school and after finishing it, he decided to move to university of LAUSANNE in SWITZERLAND. Then FRANCE, where he continued his studies in field of law and graduated in 1914. At the same time he met his first wife JOSEPHINE.
After meeting REZA AFSHAR, he moved to GERMANY. Here a new era in the life of JAMALZADEH was born. He joined a group by name Iranian national committee. Great persons like ALLAME QAZVINI, TAGHIZADEH and GHANIZADEH were members. The said group published a worthy journal, KAVEH. They were trying to fight against prejudice, maintaining national unity and struggle in the way of cleaning the Persian ran away.
He published his first short stories in this magazine. JAMALZADEH in the preamble noted that the audience wants simple Persian literature. He influenced later writers like ALAVI and AL AHMAD.
After working with KAVEH, he got a job as a local clerk in embassy of Iran. Officially, he was retired in 1977. He married twice during his life time, but never had children. The father of Persian simple stories died on 1982.May God bless him
Period features and character of JAMALZADE
JAMALZADEH was a rare cultural figure of the various aspects.
He was present in most critical periods in world history.
He was youngest journalist then.
Iran`s first modern novelist.
He never interrupt his communication with Iran.
He was having links with cultural research in the field of history.
Before his death, in a testament, he gave right of his collections to university of Tehran.
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