Hasan bey Zardabi
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Həsən bəy Zərdabi June 28, 1837 Zardab, Russian Empire |
| Died | November 28, 1907 (aged 70) Baku, Russian Empire |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1875–1906 |
Hasan bey Zardabi (Azerbaijani: Həsən bəy Zərdabi, [hæsænˈbæj zærdɑˈbi]), born Hasan bey Salim bey oglu Malikov (Azerbaijani: Həsən bəy Səlim bəy oğlu Məlikov, [hæsænˈbæj sælimˈbæj oːˈlu ˈmælikof]; 28 June 1837 or 1842 — 15 November 1907), was an Azerbaijani journalist and intellectual, founder of the first Azeri-language newspaper Akinchi ("The Ploughman") in 1875.
Zardabi was born in Zardab, then a small village on the Kura River to the west of Baku. He had studied in the Russian school in the city of Shamakhi and later (after receiving a government scholarship) in Tiflis before being admitted to the department of mathematics and physics at Moscow University in the 1860s. Upon graduating he was appointed administrator in the Land Survey Administration in Tiflis and afterwards in the judiciary in Guba. He quit that position to become a science teacher at a secondary school in Baku, where he established a benevolent society to help raise money to make it possible for children of Muslim parents to receive modern education at Russo-Muslim schools.
Throughout his life, Zardabi fought for the enlightenment of Muslims in the Caucasus. Zardabi was proponent of secularism and education among Muslim population in the South Caucasus.
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