Career
According to Persian and Arabic sources, he was a man of "exceptional wisdom and sage counsels" and later became a characterisation of the expression. His name appears in several important works in Persian literature, most notably in the Shahnameh. The historian Arthur Christensen has suggested that Bozorgmehr was the same person as Borzūya the physician, but historigraphical studies of post-Sassanid Persian literature, as well as linguistic analysis show otherwise.
However, the word "Borzūya" can sometimes be considered a shortened form of Bozorgmehr.
Bozorgmehr is first mentioned in 498, as one of the nine sons of the powerful nobleman Sukhra. During the reign of Khosrau"s son Hormizd IV, Bozorgmehr was appointed as spahbed of Khorasan.
According to Ferdinand Justi, Bozorgmehr was later executed by the order of Hormizd IV. An early reference to Bozorgmehr is found in the Aydāgār ī Wuzurgmihr, in which he is called an argbed—a high-ranking title in the Sassanid and Parthian periods. Among other sources, later mention of him is made in the Shahnameh and in Ṯaʿālebī’s Ḡorar and Masʿūdī’s Morūj.
