Abdülhalim Memduh

Yazar, Şair

Poet and writer (B. 1866, Istanbul- D. 1905, England).  He also used the name Ali Sezâ. He studied in İstanbul Faculty of Law for a while. He worked as an editor in Muhit newspaper. He was banished to Tripoli because of his articles in Mizah newspaper. Then he ran to France, he stayed in Tunisia and England. He died in England; he was buried in Tunisia upon his will.

He followed Abdülhak Hamit ecole in his poems; he struggled with Muallim Naci and his followers. His work Tarih-i Edebiyat-ı Osmaniye (1888) was considered as the first Turkish Literature History. He translated an anthology from Turkish Literature into French with Edmond Fazy and published it as the Antologie des Poêmes d‘Amour Turc (Anthology of Turkish Love Poems) (1905).

REFERENCE: Bursalı Mehmed Tahir / Osmanlı Müellifleri II (1972), Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (ed.18 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (exp. ed.6 1999), İbnülemin Mahmud Kemal İnal / Son Asır Türk Şairleri (vol. 3, 2001), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001).

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