Abbas Mammadzadeh was born around 1864 in a merchant family. He studied Persian in Isfahan and studied at a madrasa in Iravan. In 1881, he taught Arabic and Persian languages at the teacher’s seminary opened in Iravan. He was called Fars Abbas because he knew the Persian language perfectly. In 1912, the “Guldaste” textbook was printed in Persian language at the “Orujov brothers” printing house in Baku. In 1913, his textbooks “Badrgatul-Aftal” (“Gift for children”) and “Persian language tutorial for Russians ” were published simultaneously in Baku, Tiflis and Iravan. During the massacres in Iravan in 1918, he took refuge in Tabriz and died there a year later.

His eldest son Jabbar Mammadzadeh (1882–1937) graduated from the Iravan Teachers’ Seminary in 1902 and worked as a teacher in that seminary since 1907. In August 1918, after the teachers’ seminary was closed, he came to Nakhchivan and taught at the higher elementary school there for two years. In those years, his 3 books (“Самоучителъ турского языка для русских”, “Самоучителъ русского языка для тюрок”, “Самоучителъ русского языка для персов”) were published. He moved to Baku in 1920 and gave lectures in higher schools. In 1937, he was awarded the scientific degree of Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences for his work “History of Teaching Methodology in Azerbaijan”. In October of that year, he was arrested and shot.

Mirza Jabbar’s son Jalal Mammadov (1918–1983) graduated from the law faculty of Azerbaijan State University, but he was inclined towards literature. He worked in responsible positions in the Ministry of Education and “Azernashr”, later he worked as the deputy chairman of the State Television and Radio Committee, and the deputy editor of the “Communist” newspaper. In 1966, he was appointed the editor-in-chief of “Azerbaijan” magazine, and from 1975 until the end of his life, he worked as the first deputy chairman of the State Committee on Book Trade, Printing and Publishing.