Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury

Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926 – 14 December 1971) was a prominent Bengali essayist, prized scholar of Bengali literature, educator and linguist of the Bengali language.

Biography Chaudhury was born in Khalishpur, Noakhali district, British India, (now in Begumganj Upazila, Bangladesh) in 1926. His father died when Chaudhury was young. Chaudhury continued at Visva-Bharati for two years as a research assistant to Professor Probodh Chandra Sen, a specialist in Bengali metre. In 1948, he passed the college's Loka Siksha Samsad (a type of non-formal education) examination and received a 'Sahitya Bharati' diploma.

On 3 November 2013, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – nine Dhaka University teachers including Chaudhury, six journalists, and three physicians – in December 1971.