Hossein Gol-e-Golab

Hossein Gol-e-Golâb (Persian حسین گل‌گلاب  also given as Hosayn Golgolâb, (1895 – March 13, 1985) was a polymath Iranian scholar and musician who wrote the patriotic anthem “Ey Irân”.

Gol-e-Golâb was born in Tehran, and studied at the Elmiya School and Dar-ul-Funun university,

Gol-e-Golâb never lost his interest in music, finding time to translate Western operas into his native Persian while teaching and writing on botany and serving on the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, to which he was appointed in 1935.