Dār ul-Funun ( Persian : دارالفنون Persian pronunciation: [dɒːɾolfʊˈnuːn] , meaning " polytechnic college ") was an institute of higher education in Iran , established by the royal vizier to Nasereddin Shah in 1851.
5-492: (Redirected from Darolfonun ) Dar ul-Funun may refer to: Dar ul-Funun (Persia) , an institution of higher learning in Tehran Istanbul University , the older name of which was Darülfünun [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with
10-552: A Russian engineering design. Many parts of the institute were later on absorbed and merged into the newly establishing Tehran University . The Faculty of Medicine for example, was particularly the successor to the Dār ul-Funun Department of Medicine, established in 1851, which had become the School of Medicine (Madreseh-ye Tebb) in 1919. The elite school was training 287 students by 1889, and had graduated 1100 students by 1891. During this time,
15-693: The University of Tehran . The institute was planned by the Iranian-educated Mirzā Rezā Mohandes ( fa ) , and built by the architect Mohammad-Taqi Khān Memār-Bāshi ( fa ) under the supervision of the Qajar prince Bahrām Mirzā . Facilities such as an assembly hall, a theater, library, cafeteria, and a publishing house were built for the institute. In 1930, the building was destroyed by Mirzā Yahyā Khan Qarāgozlu (also known as Etemād od-Dowleh ), then Minister of Education, and rebuilt based on
20-485: The royal vizier to Nasereddin Shah , the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran , Dār al-Funun originally was conceived as a polytechnic to train upper-class Persian youth in medicine , engineering , military science , and geology . It was similar in scope and purpose to American land grant colleges like Purdue and Texas A&M . Like them, it developed and expanded its mission over the next hundred years, eventually becoming
25-502: The same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dar_ul-Funun&oldid=932784643 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dar ul-Funun (Persia) Founded by Amir Kabir , then
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