Hasan Amid


Hasan Amid was an Iranian lexicographer, writer, and journalist.

Life and activities

Hasan Amid was born in 1910 in Mashhad, Khorasan province of Iran. He completed his education in Mashhad, and became a member of Anjoman-e Adabi. He started his career in journalism, writing, and lexicography on those years. Among the most important activities of him in Mashhad city was management of Khorasan yearbook and Tus newspaper.
During the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, when the Soviet forces captured Mashhad, Amid was exiled to Tehran.
Hasan Amid spent decades of his life on research centering on dictionaries and lexicography. He wrote multiple Persian dictionaries in these years, the most notable being Amid dictionary. He died in 1979.

Works