Abol Ghassem Bakhtiar

Abol Ghassem Bakhtiar (; c. 1872 – 1971) was an Iranian physician, focused on obstetrics and gynaecology. He is known as a founder of faculty of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. His name is also spelled as Abul Qasim Bakhtiar, and A. G. Bakhtiar.

Life and career Abol Ghassem Bakhtiar was born in c. 1872, in Borujen, in the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Qajar Iran. He lost his mother at birth. Bakhtiar began living with his father Jafar Qoli Khan Bakhtiar, who was a dervish, and when he was 6 years old he lost his father. He worked in many odd jobs to support himself, while continuing his education in Borujen. Bakhtiar has a doctorate degree from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, which was obtained when he was 55 years old. Around 1934, through his efforts and those of his colleagues, the Tehran University of Medical Sciences was established and he was appointed as the vice-dean of the medical school. Bakhtiar taught obstetrics and gynecology, and minor surgery to medical students. Helen traveled with her husband to remote areas of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in Iran, and educating and medically treated underprivileged people. His first marriage ended in divorce around 1940.

His second marriage was at age 70, around 1942, to a Bakhtiyari named Bibi Turan Zargham, and they had another 10 children in Iran: 6 daughters and 4 sons.

He was buried next to the tomb of Abu al-Qasim Ferdowsi in the Razavi Khorasan province.