Linguist. He was born on May 14, 1936 in Hekimhan / Malatya. He has completed
his primary and secondary education in Kadirli. He graduated from Adana Boys’
High School (1955) and studied at French Philology Department, Faculty of
Literature, and Istanbul
University for one year.
He transferred to the Department of Turkish Language and Literature of the same
faculty with TDK Scholarship. He has received the certificates of Arabic
Language and Literature, Persian Language and Literature and Latin Language and
Literature certificates and completed his higher education (1960). He worked as
a Term branch expert in Turkish Linguistic Institution (1960-1962). He became
an assistant at Ankara
University, DTCF,
Department of Turkish Language and Literature Professorship of Old Turkish
Dialects. He has completed his doctoral studies in 1965 with the thesis named “Behçetü’l-Hada’ik
fî Mev’izeti’l Hala’ik (Giriş, Gramer İncelemesi, Dizin)”. In the same year, he became the Turkish
lecturer at Hamburg
University, Minor Asia
History, Cultures and Languages Institute, where he taught courses such as
Anatolian Dialects and Intermediate Turkish. In 1967, he returned back to Turkey; and in
1969, he returned to his job at the faculty. He became an associate professor
in 1973 with his thesis named “Ali Şir Nevayi: Lisanü’t-Tayr” and he
became a professor in 1983. He worked at the ordering-Scanning Branch of TDK
and as the President of Dictionary Branch, and in Konya Selçuk
University (1977-1982)
and Balıkesir Necatibey Faculty of Education (1982-1982). In 1992, he
established the Contemporary Turkish Dialects and Literatures Department at AU
Languages, History and geography Faculty and worked as the department head and
subdivision head of DTCK Old Turkish Language. He is a member of Linguistic
Association.
He worked as an editor of Türk
Dilleri Araştırmaları Yıllığı (1995, 1996 and 1997) with a committee. He was one of
the editors of Ömer Asım Aksoy Armağanı (1978). In 1993, he received the
International Cengiz Aytmatov Union award.
WORKS
(Research):
Türk
Dili ve Edebiyatı Örnekleri (with Kayahan
Erimer, facsimile, 1981), Ömer bin Mezid: Mecmû’atün-nezâ’ir (1982), Ali
Şir Nevayi: Lisanüt-Tayr (1995), Manas (poetics’ translation to
Turkish , 1995).
REFERENCE:
Mustafa Emre / Geçmişten Geleceğe Çukurova’da Şiir (2 vol. 1994), Günümüz
Türkiyesinde Kim Kimdir (2000), TDOE – TDE Ansiklopedisi 2 (2002), İhsan Işık
(TEKAA, 2009).
