Writer (b. 1881, İzmir - d. 1936,
London). He attended the War School. He worked as a teacher in various schools.
He retired when he was a literature teacher at Kuleli Military High School
(1908). He was against the “Art for Art” understanding of the “Dawn of the New
Age Movement” His critiques made him one of the important critics of the Second
Constitutional Monarchy Period along with Fuat Köprülü, A. Canip Yöntem and
Şahabettin Süleyman. Apart from his compilations, he translated novels from
Western literature.
WORKS:
CRITICISM:
Hisler ve Fikirler (Senses and Ideas,
1910), Hayat-ı Edebiyye (Literature
Life, 1922).
NOVEL:
Ufûl (Decline, 1913, new edition,
2002), Ziya ve Sevda (Ziya and Sevda,
1924), Yirminci Asır (The Twentieth
Century, 1932), Semavî İhtiras
(Heavenly Passion, 1933).
PLAY:
Tiraje (Rainbow, with M. Rauf, 1919).
LETTER:
Fikrî ve Ahlâkî Mektuplar
(Ideological and Ethical Letters, 1925), Talebe
Mektupları (Student Letters, 1927).
DICTIONARY:
Resimli Türkçe Kamus (Illustrated
Turkish Dictionary, with Hasan Bedrettin, 1927).
COLLECTION:
Süzme Sözler, Yaşayan Mısralar (Purified Words, Lively Lines, 1936).
MEMOIR: Osmanlı
İmparatorluğunun
Batışı (ufûl)-Edirne Savunması (The Fall of
the Ottoman Empire - Edirne Defense, edited by Veliye Özdemir, 2001).
In addition, his translations were published.
