Mammadhuseyn Tahmasib

Mammadhuseyn Tahmasib was born in Nakhchivan.

He studied at the Baku Pedagogical Technical School (1923-1927), the Language and Literature Faculty of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute (1930-1933).

He worked as a teacher at the Nakhchivan city secondary school (1927-1930), a methodologist at the Kurdamir, Ali Bayramli, and Goychay city education departments (1933-1936), a senior lecturer at the Philology Faculty of the Azerbaijan State University (1939-1951), an associate professor (1951-1959), and a scientific associate and head of the Department of Folk Creativity at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (from 1944 until his death). He began his literary career in 1934. He published the script "Gachag Nabi" in the "Inqilab ve Munyedin" magazine in 1938. "Spring" (1938), "Lion's Lair" (1941), "Blooming Dreams" (1951), "Indian Tale" (1956), "In the World of Rubaiyats" (1968) and other plays and tales were staged. He defended his doctoral dissertation on "Azerbaijani Folk Epics (Middle Ages)" (1965). In 1946-1977, he actively worked on the collection, compilation and publication of "Koroglu", "Molla Nasreddin's Jokes", "Ashiq Alasgar", "Kitabi-Dede Gorgud", "Azerbaijani Epics" and other folk gems. He is the author of the books “Azerbaijani Folklore Course” (1940), “Heroic Epic of the Azerbaijani People” (fragments) (1941), “Heroic Sons of the Azerbaijani People” (1942), “Flowering Mountain” (fairy tale-play) (1965), “Epics of the Azerbaijani People” (1972).

Doctor of Philology (1965), Professor (1970) Mammadhuseyn Tahmasib died in 1982.

Literary critic, folklorist, writer, playwright, translator Mammadhuseyn Tahmasib is the brother of director, actor Rza Tahmasib.