Dr. Salman Aliyari Babolghani

Akademisches Profil

• Ph.D. in Iranian Studies (Old Iranian Languages and Culture), University of Tehran (2009–2014)
  Dissertation: The Elamite Version of Darius the Great’s Inscription at Bisotun
• M.A. in Iranian Studies (Old Iranian Languages and Culture), Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (2006–2009)
  Thesis: The Study of Rām Yašt (the 15th Yašt of Avesta)

Berufliche Tätigkeit

01/2026-12/2028

• Dialectology and Classification of Southwest Iranian Languages
  (DFG project 568599111, the University of Hamburg, Germany)

08/2021-08/2024

• Towards a Historical Dialectology of Lorī (Southwest Iran)
  (DFG-SPP 2176, the University of Hamburg, Germany)

03/2018–06/2021

• Achaemenid inscriptions of Susa (Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian versions), investigated within the framework of the joint DARIOSH–Louvre Project (University of Tuscia and ISMEO, Italy)
   

03/2012–03/2014

• Seven Dialects from the Zagros Periphery: Varieties of Lori, Kurdish, Laki, and Gorani (The Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Iran)
   

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Philology of the Iranian languages in general, and of the ‘Southwestern’ Iranian languages in particular, with a special focus on Lori
• Historical development of Persian from Old to Middle and New Persian
• Achaemenid inscriptions, particularly the Old Persian and Achaemenid Elamite versions
• Elamite Language and Old Persian survivals in the Achaemenid Elamite texts
• Shahnama studies