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).