Writer (b. 1891, İstanbul - d. 12
December 1945). He was the brother of Abdülhak Şinasi Bey. He graduated from
Galatasaray High School (1910). He dropped out of Geneva University and worked
as a journalist, then as a teacher of history and as the director of Printing
and Illustration Collection Directorate, which he founded after his returned to
Turkey (1934). Starting in 1922he published his research on press history and
his articles on bibliographies in the review İleri, as well as in several
newspapers and reviews.
MAIN WORKS:
Türk Matbaacılığı (Turkish Printing, 1926), Türk Temâşâsı (The Turkish Spectacle, 1930), Türk Gazeteciliği (Turkish Journalism, 1931), Türk Matbaacılığı ve Müteferrika Matbaası (Turkish Printing and
the Müteferrika Printing House (the first Turkish printer), 1939), Tiyatro Tarihi (The History of the
Theatre, Greek-Latin theatre, 1944), Tiyatro
Bilgisi (Theatre Knowledge, 1944), İstanbul'dan
Ben de Geçtim (I Also Passed Through İstanbul, edited by Ali Birinci and
İsmail Kara, 2001).
