Ethem Pertev Paşa

Devlet Adamı, Yazar, Şair

Statesman, poet and writer (B. 1824, Erzurum – D. 1872, Kastamonu). He was grown up with private education. He worked as an officer at Divan Scribe, as a letterman next to Trabzon Governor Halil Rıfat Pasha, as an officer at Sadaret Service and as a consulate clerk in Berlin. He has also worked at Chamber of Translation and Accounting and Finance, as local administrator of several towns; and then he was appointed as Aleppo Governor with the title of Pasha (1886). He was retired while he was Governor of Kastamonu.

He was known in the world of literature with his translations of French poems. He is considered as one of the successful representatives of Tanzimat era with his articles published in Mecmu-i Fünûn, Hakayık-ul Vekayi newspapers. He is famous with his translation of Victor Hugo’s poem Tıfl-ı Naim (The Sleeping Kid), his satire named Av’ave (1865) as a response to Şinasi’s article named İstanbul Sokaklarının Tenvir ve Tathiri and his article on population problem, İtlah’ül-Efkâr fi Akd’il-Ebkâr (1869).

REFERENCE: Yurt Ansiklopedisi (vol. IV, 1982), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).

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