Hawzah News Agency –An Austrian scholar, Iranologist and Islamic studies, died on December 16.

According to the Public Relations Department of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) Professor Bret Fragner, a prominent cultural figure in the field of Islamic studies, was born in 1941. He began his university studies in 1960 in the fields of Oriental Studies, Turkish and Arabic Studies, Iranology, as well as Ethnology and Islamology at the University of Vienna.

In the mid-1960s, he came to Tehran for a year and studied with Iraj Afshar, Shirin Bayani, Jafar Mahjoub, Zabihullah Safa, Professor Shahidi, and Manouchehr Sotoudeh.

History of the city of Hamedan in the first 12 centuries was the title of Fragner’s doctoral dissertation, which was presented to the University of Vienna in 1970. Until the end of his doctoral dissertation, he taught at the university for seven years and made numerous scientific trips to Lebanon and Tehran. Literature of Diary Writing as a Source in the Service of Modern Iranian History" was the title of his doctoral dissertation, which was completed in 1977 and published in 1980.

Fragner taught as a professor of Iranian studies at the universities of Vienna, Freiburg, Berlin and Bern until 1989, and from 2003 until 2003 he was a professor of Iranian studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany. From 2003 to January 1, 2010, he was the director of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

In July 2010, he received the Mahmoud Afshar Endowment Foundation Award for promoting Iranian culture and history at the Vienna Academy of Sciences, and in 2004 he was selected for the fourth conference of Enduring Figures of Iran.

While working with Iranian universities, Professor Faranger had a very close interaction and cooperation with the Cultural Attaché of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Berlin. For many years, he has been the editor of the scientific research journal Iran Spectrum, which is published by the Cultural Council.

Professor Fragner passed away on Thursday (December 25) at the age of eighty in Vienna, leaving behind valuable scientific works in the field of Iranology and Islamology.

The Cultural Attaché of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Berlin extends its condolences to the community of Islamologists and Iranologists on the loss of this Islamic thinker.