Jabbar Baghtcheban

Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh famously known as Jabbar Baghcheban was an Iranian inventor. He is well known for establishing the first Iranian kindergarten and the first deaf school in Tabriz. He was also the inventor of Persian language cued speech.

Baghtcheban was the father of the late Iranian composer Samin Baghcheban. In total he had three children.

Biography Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh was born in Yerevan. The first kindergarten he established was called the which means 'children's garden'. That is why he was given the nickname which literally means 'gardener' in the Persian language.

He founded a school for the deaf in 1924, located next to his kindergarten. In 1928 he wrote the first Iranian children's book in Persian. The book was called which means 'snow father' in Persian.