Şinasi

Gazeteci, Yazar, Şair

Ölüm
13 Eylül, 1871
Eğitim
Fevziye School
Diğer İsimler
İbrahim Şinasi (asıl adı)

Poet and writer (b. 1826, İstanbul – d. 13 April 1871). His real name was İbrahim Şinasi. He completed his primary school education at Provincial Children’s School and Fevziye School. Later on he became a clerk at the Correspondence Office of the Tophane Field Marshal. He learned Arabic and Persian in those years. He studied economics, mathematics and social sciences in Paris where he went on a scholarship awarded by the state (1849). He met the French poets and writers Lamartine, Ernest Renan and Littre and became part of their social group. He became a member of “Sociate Asratic”. On his return, he was first appointed to his previous duty at the Tophane Field Marshal’s Office and after a short time to a member of the Education Commission. He was under the protection of by Mustafa Reşit Paşa. He was dismissed from his post for a while because he had shaved his beard off. However, when Reşit Paşa was appointed Grand Vizier again, he was reappointed. Apart from being a civil servant, he started his journalistic and translation work. First he published the newspaper Tercüman-ı Ahval with Agah Efendi (1860). Later he published the newspaper Tasvir-i Efkar on his own (1862). He was dismissed from his membership of the Education Commission due to his articles criticizing the rule of the state (1863). Two years later, he made Namık Kemal manager of his newspaper and left for Paris (1865). In the years he spent in Paris he did not join the political activities of the Young Turks but studied language and literature in the libraries of Paris instead. When he returned to İstanbul in the fall of 1869, he established a publishing house. His grave in Ayazpaşa was gradually lost.

Şinasi, one of the founders of Tanzimat Literature, apart from his poetry, has an important place in Turkish Literature in terms of introducing Western works to Turkish Literature for the first time. In order to make Western poetry known he did the first poetry translations from French. He was also the author of the first Turkish theatrical work, Şair Evlenmesi (Marriage of the Poet). He published the first Turkish newspaper with Agah Efendi and was the first columnist. Although he stayed faithful to the style of Divan* poetry, he used Western concepts for the first time in poetry. For prose, instead of building long, sophisticated and complex sentences, he preferred a simple and clear expression. He was also the first to use punctuation. He also worked on dictionaries and compilations.

WORKS:

Tercüme-i Manzume (Translation of Poetry, 1859, republished by Süheyl Beken, 1960), Şair Evlenmesi (Marriage of the Poet, 1 act comedy, 1860; republished by Fevziye Abdullah Tansel, 1960), Müntahabat-ı Eş’ar (Selection of Poems, 1862; republished by Süheyl Beken, 1960), Durub-i Emsal-i Osmaniyye (Ottoman Proverbs, 1863; republished by Ebüzziya Tevfik with the addition of 4 thousands proverbs, 1885), Müntahabat-i Tasvir-i Efkar (Selected Articles from the newspaper Tasvir-i Efkar, 3 volumes, collected by Ebüzziya Tevfik, 1885; republished by Abdullah Tansel under the name Makaleler -Articles, 1960).

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