Javad Heyat
Javad Heyat | |
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Born | Tabriz, Iran | 24 May 1925
Died | 12 August 2014 Baku, Azerbaijan | (aged 89)
Nationality | Iranian, Azerbaijani |
Alma mater | Istanbul University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Surgery, writing |
Javad Heyat (Persian: جواد هیئت; 25 May 1925 – 12 August 2014) was an Iranian surgeon and writer. He performed the first open heart surgery in Iran, and was Ayatollah Khamenei's personal physician when the latter was President of Iran.[1] Heyat was the publisher and founding editor of Varliq, which he established in 1979 in Tehran.[2] According to Gilles Riaux, Heyat was a "leading figure in the Iranian medical community" and a "recognized expert" on Turkic matters.[1]
Biography[]
Javad Heyat was born in 1925 in Tabriz, northwestern Iran, and belonged to an aristocratic Iranian Azerbaijani family.[1] His father, Ali Heyat, was Chief Justice under the Pahlavi dynasty.[1] Javad attended elementary and secondary school in Tabriz, and subsequently moved to the capital Tehran where he attended medical school.[1] He then attended medical school abroad, first in Istanbul and then Paris in order to specialize in cardiology.[1] Back in the Iranian capital Tehran, Heyat pursued a remarkable medical career at Hedayat hospital, where he performed the first open heart surgey in Iran.[1] Javad Heyat was the author of over 80 articles in Persian and 20 articles in English and French for medical journals.[1] Following the Islamic Revolution (1979), he became professor of surgery at Islamic Azad University in Tehran where he published three surgery manuals.[1] He simoultaneously wrote several books on the history of and language of Iran's historic Azerbaijan region.[1] In 1983, Heyat briefly moved to the United States in order to participate in the first Conference of Turkic studies at the University of Indiana.[1] There, Heyat presented a paper which dealt with the Azeri Turkish language, before and after the Revolution.[1] Heyat was the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from universities in Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan: University of Medicine in Istanbul, Medical School of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Turkish Language Academy in Ankara, Academy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.[1] He also was Ayatollah Khamenei's personal physician when the latter was President of Iran.[1]
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Sources[]
- Riaux, Gilles (2018). "The Origins of the Protest Movement Against Ethnic Hierarchy: The Azerbaijani Cause in Iran". In Dorronsoro, Gilles; Grojean, Olivier (eds.). Identity, Conflict and Politics in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190934682.
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- 20th-century Iranian people
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- Iranian expatriates in France
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