Instructor-writer
(b. 1888, Bergama / İzmir -
d. 1953, İzmir).
After high school education, he studied grammar, syntax and literature in
Arabic from the doctor of Muslim theology, Terzizade
Mustafa in Bergama. He took logic and lessons on
being a Muslim judge from Fehmi Efendi. He graduated form Istanbul Advanced
Teachers Training School (1910) and started his career as a pedagogy teacher at
Skopje Teachers Training School. He also worked at Adana Teachers Training School. The National Ministry of Education
sent him to Geneva for student evaluation and pedagogy education in 1913. He
graduated from the Jean Jacques Institute. While he assisted Prof. Claparade,
he attended the lessons of Prof. Edouard Montet.
He
worked for İkdam newspaper when he
returned to Turkey in 1920. He was appointed to the Ministry of National
Education, Compiling and Translation Board when the national government was
established in Ankara. When Ziya Gökalp became a member of parliament, Balaban
took his place and became the chairman of the board. He translated from
Claparade and many other works by western writers related to Ottoman and
Turkish history. He wrote Asri Terbiye ve Maarif (Modern Manners and
Education) and published various books. He resigned in 1924 and worked as a
philosophy teacher at İzmir High School for Boys and as a pedagogy teacher at
the Teachers Training School for Girls. He retired 1953 and died a couple of
weeks later.
He
published articles on the similarities between the Koran and contemporary
telefinalism philosophy about the purpose of the Creation, the similaritiy
between Jung and Sufism about the basis and duties of human beings in the
review Müslüman Sesi. Mustafa Rahmi was
considered in the same line with the intellectuals of the Second Constitutional
Monarchy of such as Şehbenderzade
Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi, İsmail Fenni and Mehmet Ali Ayni
although he gave his works during the Republican Era.
He gave important service in the publishing of encyclopedic knowledge in the
Republican Era. birer
MAIN WORKS:
Hakikat
Yollarında (The Ways of Truth), Filozoflarla Birer Saat (One Each
Hour Per Philosophers), Tarih Boyunca Ahlâk (Morality
Throughout History), İlim, Ahlâk ve İman
(Science, Morality and Belief), Avrupa'da Yeni Mektepler (New Schools
in Europe), Çocuk Büyütmek (Growing up a Child),
Ruhiyata Metha (Psychological Principles), Öksüzler
Babası Pestalozzi (Pestalozzi, Father of the Orphans), Çocuk
Ruhiyatı (Child Spirituality), Ailede Terbiye (Good Manners
in a Family), Alfabede Cümle Usulü (Sentence
Method in the Alphabet), Yeni Psikoloji ve Pedagoji (New
Psychology and Pedagogy).
