Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury was a popular Bengali Essayist, a prized scholar of Bengali literature, an educator, and a linguist of the Bengali language.
He was born in the year 1926, on 22 July at Khalishpur village in Noakhali.
He joined Pakistan Radio in Dhaka in 1949 and was a lecturer at Jagannath College before becoming a teacher at the Department of Bengali at the University of Dhaka
He had to actually sit for another master’s exam because DU wouldn’t accept his Bishwabharati degree and again came first in his class in 1953, in Bengali from the University of Dhaka.
He joined DU in 1955. In 1957, he joined the School of Oriental and African Studies to study linguistics for two years. His research on the works and the philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore was felicitated and in 1970, he became an external examiner for Bengali at the University of Dhaka.
Chaudhury was one of the leading Bengali intellectuals who were killed by collaborators of the Pakistan Army on 14 December, two days before the end of the Bangladesh Liberation War.
