Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration

The Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration (Persian: جشن هزاره فردوسی‎‎) was a series of celebrations and scholarly events in the year 1934 to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of Ferdowsi's birth. The Ferdowsi Millenary was announced at the beginning of the year by the government of Iran. The Millenary Congress convened for five days from 2 to 6 October 1934 in Tehran, and more than eighty notable European and Iranian scholars attended the congress. The celebrations lasted for nearly a month.

Simultaneously various official ceremonies were held in a number of European countries including France, Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union, in universities, clubs, and embassies. Also, a number of other countries including United States, Egypt and Iraq held festivities.

The gathering of some one hundred distinguished scholars as well as many dignitaries of various nationalities in Tehran and Mashad was a most beneficial event for Iranian studies in general and for research on Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh in particular.

Distinguished participants included: Henri Massé (France), Vladimir Minorsky (England), Sebastian Beck (Germany), Evgeniĭ Berthels (Soviet Union), Georges Contenau (France), Arthur Christensen (Denmark), Friedrich Sarre (Germany), Denison Ross (England), A. A. Bolotnikof (Soviet Union), Jan Rypka (Czechoslovakia), Franklin Gunther (United States), Alexsandr Freiman (Soviet Union), Yuri N. Marr (Soviet Union), Aleksandr A. Romaskevich (Soviet Union), Iosef Orbeli (Soviet Union), Jamshedji Unvala (India), Bahramgor Anklesaria (India), Antonio Pagliaro (Italy), Ernst Kühnel (Germany), L. A. Mayer (Palestine), John Drinkwater (England), Syed Abdul Kareem Hussaini (Hyderabad-Deccan, India).

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