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Bo Utas, born May 26, 1938 in Höglunda, a village in Jämtland, Sweden, is a Swedish linguist, Iranologist and chess historian. He is professor emeritus in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, and a scholar on Persian historical linguistics and classical Persian literature. == Career == Bo Utas got acquainted with Persian literature in secondary school. In 1959 he started to study Persian at Uppsala University for his mentor Henrik Samuel Nyberg and defended his PhD thesis in 1973. His thesis is a critical edition of the Sufi ''masnavi'' poem ''Tariq to-tahqiq'' which has been ascribed to Hakim Sanai of Ghazna.〔Bo Utas, ''Tariq ut-tahqiq: A Sufi Mathnavi ascribed to Hakim Sanai of Ghazna and probably composed by Ahmad b. al-Hasan b. Muhammad an-Naxcavani'', Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Monograph series, no. 13, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1973.〕 Utas travelled extensively in Iran and Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1988 he became the first professor in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, a chair that he held until he retired in 2003. Under his supervision, no less than eight PhD candidates defended their theses successfully.〔Carina Jahani, ("Bo Utas, a 70 years "young" scholar and friend" ), ''Manuscript, text and literature: collected essays on Middle and New Persian texts'', by Bo Utas; edited by Carina Jahani and Dariush Kargar, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2008.〕 Bo Utas is a member of several learned societies, including the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, Societas Iranologica Europaea, and the Royal Society for the Humanities in Uppsala. He was the first secretary of the Societas Iranologica Europaea. Bo Utas knows several languages, including Avesta, Old Persian, Middle Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Latin, Turkish, Hebrew and Arabic. A full list of his publications shows his broad and diverse scholarship on Middle Persian and New Persian language and literature, manuscript tradition and text edition, culture and religion in Greater Iran.〔List of Publications (2009): (Bo Utas, Bibliografi, nrs 1–135. Uppsala )〕 Bo Utas has translated several Persian classical and modern literary works into Swedish, including the ''Buf-e kur'' (Blind Owl) by Sadeq Hedayat. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bo Utas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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