Researcher
and writer (b. 1932, Kahramanmaraş – d. 26 June 1996, İstanbul). He is
originally from Malatya (Darende). Hacıeminoğlu
lost his father when he was only one year old. His death shook the family
deeply and the Özdarendeli family left Kahramanmaraş and moved back to Darende,
settled in the Aşudu Village and lived on culturing the land that they
inherited from their grandfathers. The childhood years of Hacıeminoğlu passed
in Aşudu. He attended elementary school (1946) and then the Adana
Erkek High School (1954), and graduated from İstanbul University, Faculty of
Literature and High Teacher Training School (1958).
He began to work as an assistant
at İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department
of Turkish Language and Literature, Chair of New Turkish Philology in 1960. He completed his doctorate studies at the same
department in 1963
with the thesis “Kutb'un Husrev ü Şirin'i ve Dil Hususiyetleri” (“Hüsrev
and Şirin” of Kutb and Its Linguistic Characteristics). He was sent to France
by the university in 1969, and stayed in Paris for a year. He became an
associate professor in 1970 with the thesis “Türk Dilinde Edatlar” (Prepositions
in Turkish Language). He was appointed as an associate professor to the Chair
of New Turkish Philology in March, 1971. He served as a guest lecturer at
Baghdad University during the educational term of 1972-73. During his term of
duty, he established the Department of Turkology in Baghdad University; gave
lectures on Turkish language, and conducted researches on the dialects of Iraqi
Turks. He became a professor in 1982. He was appointed as a professor to Trakya
University in 1985. He was charged here to establish the Department of Turkish
Language and Literature, and became the head of the department. In 1987, he
began to serve as the director of the Institute of Social Sciences. He worked
as a professor at İstanbul
University, Faculty
of Literature (1960-83) and at
Trakya University, Faculty of Literature and Science after 1985, where he later
became a dean. He is buried at the Edirnekapı Graveyard.
His first article was published in the review Türk
Dili with the pen name Necmettin Özdarendeli in 1955. His later articles
after 1954 were
published in the reviews Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı, Türk Dili, Türk Yurdu, Türk
Kültürü, Türk Edebiyatı, Hisar, Töre, Devlet, Yol, Millî Eğitim, Millî Kültür,
and in the newspaper Yeni Sözcü, Yeni Düşünce, Yeni Hizmet, Babıâlide Sabah,
Meydan, Ortadoğu, Hergün and
Tercüman.
WORKS:
RESEARCH: Lehçetü'l-hakâyık-Seyyâreler (The Dialect of Realities and
Planets, 1962; new edition of Ali Bey’s humorous dictionary), Kutb'un
Husrev ü Şirin'i ve Dil Hususiyetleri (“Hüsrev and Şirin” of Kutb and Its
Linguistic Characteristics, 1968, a translation from Nizamî), Türk Dilinde
Edatlar (Prepo–sitions in Turkish Language, 1972), Milliyetçi Eğitim
Sistemi (Nationalist System of Education, 1972), Türkçe'nin Karanlık
Günleri (The Dark Days of Turkish Lnaguage, 1972), Fuzûlî (Fuzuli,
1972), Milliyetçilik-Ülkücülük-Aydınlar (Nationalism-Idealism-Intellectuals,
1975), Türkiye'nin Çıkmazları (Dead-ends of Turkey, 1975), Yapı
Bakımından Türk Dilinde Fiiller (Verbs in Turkish Language with Regard to
Their Structure, 1984), Karahanlı Türkçesi Grameri (The Grammar of the
Karakhanid Turkish, 1996), Harezm Türkçesi ve Grameri (The Kharezmian
Turkish and Its Gram–mar,1996).
SHORT
STORY: Yeni Bir Dünya (A New World, 1976).