Mohammad Ghazvini (1877–1949) made his way to Europe after his brother, who had emigrated to England, wrote to him about the wealth of classic Persian manuscripts in British libraries. Arriving in London in 1904, he soon met Edward G. Browne, the great Orientalist and expert in Persian literature, who introduced Ghazvini to the Gibb Memorial Trust. Continuing his research in Paris, Ghazvini wrote an introduction for Browne’s edition of Persian historian Muhammad Aufi’s Lubab al-Albab (The Quintessence of the Hearts) and an article about the Iranian poet Masoud Saad Salman. His work was interrupted by the start of World War I, and he was forced to leave Paris for Berlin, where he associated with Iranian intellectuals such as Hassan Taghizadeh and Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh. Returning to Paris in 1920, he connected with French Orientalists including Hartwig Derenburg and Barbier De Maynard, participating in their classes at the Louvre Museum and the Sorbonne. Among the many works he produced in Paris, he edited the Persian literary classics Čahār maqāla and Marzbān-nāma. He also made vital contributions to the preservation of Persian literature through his careful analysis, copying, and photography of ancient texts kept in European libraries and thus unavailable to most Iranians. Ghazvini’s admirers knew him as Allameh (erudite) due to his mastery of the Persian and Arabic languages and vast knowledge of their respective literatures.