University of Tehran honored Polish orientalist Anna Krasnowolska

On 23 February, a number of Iranian scholars came together in a session at University of Tehran to honor Polish orientalist Anna Maria Krasnowolska.

Born in 1949, Krasnowolska is the Head of the Department of Iranian Studies at the Institute of Oriental Philology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

She is also a member of the Committee of Oriental Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

She has conducted several research studies on Persian poet Ferdowsi’s masterpiece Shahnameh and Persian literature, culture and mythology. Krasnowolska presides over a team translating the Shahnameh. 

The program had been organized by the Department of Ancient Cultures and Languages and the Faculty of Human Sciences and Literature at University of Tehran.

Courtesy of Tehran Times (with a slight amendment)