Poet (Born April
28,1868, Mecca- Died, March 30, 1901, Istanbul). He was famous during his
period as “Şair-i mâderzâd” (poet
from birth). He is the brother of Poet Ismail Safa, elder brother of translator
and Gündüz journal’s owner Ali Kamil
Akyuz, and uncle of Peyami Safa. After his father’s death, he moved to
He set most of his
articles and poems on fire in a day when he lost his mental health. But his
poems in journals were collected and published by his brother Ali Kamil Akyüz.
WORKS:
POETRY: Eş‘ar-ı Vefa (1911).
TRANSLATION: Vehametli
Sevdalar (from E. Gonzalez with İsmail
Safa).
REFERENCE: İbnülemin M. K. İnal / Son Asır Türk Şairleri (I-IV, 1930-1942), S. Nüzhet Ergun / Şairler (I. vol., 1936), İ. Alaeddin
Gövsa / Türk Meşhurları Ansiklopedisi
(1946), R. Ekrem Koçu / İstanbul
Ansiklopedisi (vol.1, 1958), Atilla Özkırımlı / Türk Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi (vol.IV, 1982), TBE Ansiklopedisi (vol. 1, 2001).