Araz Dadashzadeh

Araz Dadashzadeh was born in Baku.

In 1952, he entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Azerbaijan State University. Since that faculty was closed in 1953, he continued his education at the Faculty of History (1953-1957).

He worked at the Museum of Azerbaijani History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1957-1960). He studied at the postgraduate course of the Institute of Language and Literature named after Nizami of the Academy of Sciences (1960-1963). Here he was a junior researcher (1963-1966), a senior researcher of the Department of the Middle Ages (1968-1976). A large part of his life is connected with the publication of the Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia. He worked in the General Editorial Office of the Encyclopedia as the head of the Literature and Art editorial office (1966-1968), first deputy editor-in-chief (1976-1988), and editor-in-chief (1988-1990). He was a member of the Presidium of the Terminology Committee of the Academy of Sciences. He was the host of the programs “Azerbaijani Literature Teleanthology”, “Soviet Poetry Teleanthology” and other programs on Azerbaijani television.

He began his literary activity in 1956 with a review of the film “Sweaty Shovels” published in the newspaper “Azerbaijani Youth”. He regularly published dozens of critical and scientific articles in periodicals and special publications. In addition to literature and cinema, he is the author of articles and reviews related to theater, music, fine arts and other fields. He wrote stories in his youth. Some of them were published in “Azerbaijan”, “Kirpi” and other publications. His research mainly concerns Azerbaijani literature of the 17th-18th centuries. He made contributions to the study of the life and work of Molla Panah Vagif.

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Honored Scientist (1989) Araz Dadashzadeh died in 1990 and was buried in the Second Alley of Honor.