Ghahraman-Beck died in Tehran at the age of 79.
She translated contemporary Iranian literary texts into German including works by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Hushang Golshiri, Sadeq Hedayat and Abbas Marufi.
Born in southern Germany in 1929, Ghahraman-Beck studied German language at the University of Tübingen.
In 1958, she came to Iran with her Iranian husband and shortly afterwards began a career in education -- as a professor -- at the Melli University, which was renamed Beheshti University after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Ghahraman-Beck retired in 1998.
She also wrote several books on German language and literature, which are currently being used in Iranian Universities.
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