Mir Jalal Pashayev

Mir Jalal Pashayev (Mir Jalal) was born in the village of Andabil in South Azerbaijan. They moved to Ganja at a young age. In 1918, his father died, and he lived under the care of his older brother.

He studied at the Ganja Darulmuallim (1924–1928). He was elected chairman of the student organization, and then the city student trade union organization (1926–1927). He continued his education at the literature department of the Kazan Eastern Pedagogical Institute (1930–1932), at the postgraduate course of the Azerbaijan State Scientific Research Institute, and also worked as a teacher (1932–1935).

He defended his candidate's dissertation on the topic of "Fuzuli's poetics" (1940), and his doctoral dissertation on the topic of "Literary schools in Azerbaijan" (1947).

He began his literary activity in 1928. 

He was the head of the department in the newspaper "Communist", the responsible secretary in the newspaper "Ganj Ichi" and a research worker at the Institute of Literature named after Nizami of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (1932–1935). Since 1961, he has been the head of the department of the history of Azerbaijani literature at the university. He is one of the authors of the three-volume "History of Azerbaijani Literature".

He has published more than 50 books. His works "The Resurrected Man", "The Manifesto of a Young Man", "Our Path is a Hedgehog", "The Young People" are among the best examples of Azerbaijani literature.

Honored Scientist (1969), Honorary Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968), Doctor of Philology (1947), Professor (1948) Mir Jalal Pashayev died in 1978. He was buried in the Second Alley of Honor.