Günay Kut

Edebiyat Araştırmacısı, Araştırmacı

Doğum
05 Mayıs, 1939
Eğitim
İstanbul University Faculty of Letters Department of Turkish Language and Literature
Burç

Literature researcher (b. 5 May 1939, Aydın). He attended Aydın Primary School (1950) and graduated from Aydın High School (1956), İstanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Turkish Language and Literature (1961). He started to work as an assistant in the faculty from where he graduated (1961). He completed his PhD program in Chicago University (1965-70). His master’s thesis was: Şem’ü Pervane, Zati (Zati, Candle or Moth) His PhD thesis was: Ali Şir Neva'i Divanı: Gara'ibü's-Sıgar (Divan* of Ali Şir Nevai). His associate professorship thesis was: “Heşt Bihişt: Sehi Bey Tezkiresi” (8 Heavens in the Koran: Tezkire* of Sehi Bey). For a time, he was the person in charge of the İstanbul Office of the Turkish Handwritten Works Collection Catalogue of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (1977-78). He was transferred to Boğaziçi University in 1981. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1982 and professor in 1988. He has worked as the Chairman of Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Science and Literature, Department of Turkish Language and Literature since 1988.

He is a member of Publishing Board of the Islamic Encyclopedia of the Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation, the Publishing Board of Boğaziçi University, Language Research and Application Center, the Encyclopedia of Turkish Language and Literature and the Publishing Board in the Turkish Academy of Sciences (Turkish Studies Journal). His articles about the history of literature have appeared in Belleten, Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları, Türk Dili, Tarih, Halk Kültürü periodicals and foreign periodicals. He has written sections in the encyclopedias of which he is a member of the publishing board and he has presented papers at various scientific meetings and arranged exhibitions related to his field.

WORKS:

Contemporary Turkish Short Stories (1977), Heşt Bihişt The Tezkire by Sehi Beg (1978), Ormanda Yaşam / Das Leben im Wald (Life in the Forest, with Mine Alpay, translation to German: Zeynep Sayın, 1983), Yazma Eserlerde Vakıf Mühürleri (The Pious Foundation Seals in Manuscripts, with N. Bayraktar, 1984), Başlangıçtan Günümüze Kadar Büyük Türk Klasikleri "Divan Nazım ve Nesri" (Great Turkish Classics from Past to Present “Poetry and Prose of Divan”, with F. İz, 1985), Başlangıçtan Günümüze Kadar Büyük Türk Klasikleri: "XV. Yüzyıl Divan Nazım ve Nesri" II (Great Turkish Classics from Past to Present: “XV Century Poetry and Prose of Divan*” II, with F. İz, 1985), Tercüman Gazetesi Kütüphanesi Türkçe Yazmaları Katalogu (The Library of Tercüman Newspaper, Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts, 1989), Orhan Şaik Gökyay / Hayatı ve Eserleri (Orhan Şaik Gökyay / Life and Works, 1989), Türk Lehçeleri Üzerine bir Deneme (An Essay on Turkish Dialects, with Esra Karabacak and Nesrin Altın, 1999).

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