Jabbar Baghtcheban | |
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Born | Jabbar Asgarzadeh 1886 Yerevan, Armenia |
Died | November 25, 1966 Tehran, Iran |
Occupation | teacher of the deaf |
Children | Samin Baghtcheban |
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Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh (Persian:میرزا جبار عسگرزاده) (often known as Jabbar Baghtcheban (Persian: جبار باغچه بان) established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf, and was the inventor of Persian language cued speech. He was an Iranian Azerbaijani.
Jabbar Baghtcheban was the father of the late Iranian composer Samin Baghcheban.