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Zoroaster

Also known as Zarathushtra, Zartosht, Zardusht, Zarathustra, Zarathushtra Spitama, Zarathoustra, Zoroastre, Zurtasht

Zarathushtra Spitama, more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. In the oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the Gathas, which he is traditionally believed to have authored, he is described as a preacher and a poet-prophet. Some have claimed, with much scholarly controversy, to find his influence in Heraclitus, Plato, Pythagoras, and, perhaps less controversially, in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, parti

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Zoroaster was a male human born in Ray in 628 BCE and died in Balkh in 551 BCE. He worked as a prophet, poet, writer, and thaumaturge. He practiced vegetarianism and adhered to Zoroastrianism. He spoke, wrote, or signed in Avestan.

He is described by sources including the Literary Encyclopedia (1929–1939), the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron. He is also known by the nicknames Bactrian Sage, le Sage de Bactriane, and El sabio bactriano.

His works include Zend Avesta: Volume I, ZARATHUSHTRA First Perfect Master/Poet after Adam of the Sufis SELECTED POEMS, The Gospel of Zarathustra, and Zarathushtra. He is listed as an author on Open Library with two works. Europeana Sparql lists ten works associated with him.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 2

Top works

רדוף־הזמן
Zend Avesta : Volume I
ZARATHUSHTRA First Perfect Master/Poet after Adam of the Sufis SELECTED POEMS
The Gospel of Zarathustra
Zarathushtra

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Key facts

Religious biography.honorific_prefix: Artu
Religious biography.name: Zarathushtra Spitama
Religious biography.image: File:Yazd, Templo del Fuego (2000) 03.jpg
Religious biography.background: 990955
Religious biography.caption: Modern depiction of Zoroaster featured at the Fire Temple of Yazd
Religious biography.birth_date: Unknown, traditionally
Religious biography.birth_place: Possibly Bactra, (Balkh, modern-day Afghanistan)
Religious biography.death_date: Unknown, traditionally (age 77)

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Wikidata facts

Gender: male
Occupation: thaumaturge
Languages spoken: Avestan
Religion: Zoroastrianism
Image: Zoroaster 1.jpg

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Commons category: Zoroaster
described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
lifestyle: vegetarianism
topic's main category: Category:Zoroaster
different from: Zoroaster
nickname: Bactrian Sage
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P8168: San Piero Patti

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Works in European collections

10 objects attributed to Zoroaster, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Vendidad Sadé : traduit en langue Huzvaresch ou Pehlewie, 9

Vendidad Sadé : traduit en langue Huzvaresch ou Pehlewie, 1

Die Gatha's des Awesta : Zarathushtra's Verspredigten

Oracvla Magica Zoroastris Cvm Scholiis Plethonis et Pselli nunc primum editi. E Biblioteca Regia. Studio Iohannis Opsopoei

A hymn of Zoroaster. Yasna 31. transl. with comments by A. V. Williams Jackson

Oracula magica Zoroastris : cum scholiis Plethonis et Pselli nunc primum editi ; e bibliotheca regia

Vendidad Sade : die heiligen Schriften Zoroaster's Yaçna, Vispered und Vendidad ; nach den lithographirten Ausgaben von Paris und Bombay mit Index und Glossar

Avesta : die heiligen Bücher der Parsen, Prolegomena

Vendidad Sadé : traduit en langue Huzvaresch ou Pehlewie, 5

Clavis Artis Des berühmten Juden und Rabbi Zoroasters

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Name and etymology
Date
Classical scholarship
Zoroastrian and Muslim scholarship
Modern scholarship
Late date
Early date
Place
Life
Cypress of Kashmar
Influences
In Christianity and Judaism
In Islam
Muslim scholastic views
Ahmadiyya view
In Manichaeism
In the Bahá'í Faith
Philosophy
Iconography
Western references to Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism
In classical antiquity
In the modern era
Notable influence on modern Western culture
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

He spoke an Old Iranian language, named Avestan by scholars after the corpus of Zoroastrian religious texts written in that language. Based on this, it is tentative to place his homeland somewhere in the eastern regions of the Greater Iran (possibly Bactra, now in modern-day Afghanistan). His life is traditionally dated to sometime around the 7th and 6th centuries BC; though most scholars, using linguistic and socio-cultural evidence, suggest a dating to somewhere in the 2nd millennium BC.

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