Author/Authors :
Shahbazi, Narges Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases - Pasteur Institute of Iran - Tehran, Iran , Mostafavi, Ehsan Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases - Pasteur Institute of Iran - Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Dr. Sabar Mirza Farman Farmaian, born in 1912 in Tehran, resided as the
director of PII for a period of six years (1971-1977). Furthermore, he devoted his
house (located in Shemiranat) for the establishment of a center to study and
combat infectious diseases. Both of these events had a significant impact on the
fate of PII.
He was born to a famous family of Farman Farmaian. His father, Abdol-
Hossein Mirza Farman Farmaian, the grandson of Abbas Mirza and Fath-Ali
Shah, was born in 1852, in Tabriz. He was known as “Salar Lashkar” and
“Farman Farma”. He finished his elementary studies at Dar ul-Funun, after which he went to an Austrian school to
learn military skills. He held numerous critical positions during 1881-1919. These include the chief of Kerman and
Azerbaijan military troops, governor of Kerman, Tehran, Fars, Khorasan, and Kermanshah, as well as the minister
of War, Justice and the Interior. The most prominent of all is his chair as the prime minister during the reign of
Ahmad Shah Qajar.
