Qazi Motahar Hossain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Qazi Motahar Hossain

bangladeshi writer and scientist

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1897

Place of Birth: Kushtia District, Khulna Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 09-Oct-1981

Profession: physicist, author, journalist

Nationality: Pakistan, Bangladesh

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Qazi Motahar Hossain (30 July 1897 – 9 October 1981) was a Bangladeshi author, scientist, statistician, chess player, and journalist. Hossain was a pioneer educationalist of Bangladesh.
He did original research in Statistics and pioneered its education in Bangladesh both as a faculty and administrator.
As one the early faculties of University of Dhaka, he was vigorously active in the cultural circles that grew around it.
As a Dhaka-centric literary figure in late British India, a period marked by communality and religious sentiment, Hossain and his literary group Shikha distinguished themselves as proponents of communal harmony and rationalism.
He was among the sceptical intellectuals who warned the consequences of the short-lived state of Pakistan.
On several occasion, he vocally criticized Pakistani government policies, most importantly on the state language question.