Marie-Thérèse, Baroness Ullens de Schooten, 1905-1989

Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten was born in 1905 of Belgian and Austrian parents. In 1926 she married a Belgian diplomat, which resulted in her subsequent travels to Egypt; San Francisco, California in the United States of America; Norway; and the cities and rural areas of Iran.

Ullens first trip to Iran was in 1948, and so began her documentation of the nomadic peoples of Iran, in particular of the Qashqā'ī tribes. While in Iran, Ullens befriended André Godard, the director of the Royal Archaeological Services of Iran (1928 – 1953, and 1956 – 1960) and his wife, Yedda Godard. After the sudden death of her husband by heart attack in 1950, Ullens was an annual guest of the Godard's, up until about 1970.

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