Pars Tuğlacı

Sözlük Yazarı, Dil Araştırmacısı, Tarih Araştırmacısı, Ansiklopedi Yazarı

Doğum
01 Nisan, 1933
Eğitim
Michigan University Department of English Philology
Burç

Writer of dictionaries and encyclopedias (b. 1 April 1933, İstanbul). After he completed his primary education, he completed his secondary education at the Melkonian Educational Institute in Cyprus (1951). He graduated from the Department of English Philology at Michigan University in the United States. While he was doing his military service he taught English at the Ankara Military Medical Academy, İstanbul Şişli Terakki High School, Saint-Michel Private French High School and Getronagan High School.

In his youth, he started to work on dictionaries and encyclopedias. He continued this work with great success and is an expert and a recognized name in the field of modern Turkish lexicography. He prepared Okyanus Ansiklopedik Türkçe Sözlük (The Ocean Encyclopedic Turkish Dictionary), which has the most extensive detail on the maintenance, quality and purity of Turkish (1974). His work is valued at home and abroad. He was officially congratulated by İsmet İnönü (1966), Cevdet Sunay (1966) and Fahri Korutürk (1974). After this date, together with his linguistic works, Pars Tuğlacı concentrated on history research and traveled to more than twenty countries, doing research at libraries, museums and state archive offices.

His work was published in Cumhuriyet and Milliyet newspapers and in the reviews Milliyet Sanat, Tarih ve Toplum and Yıllar Boyu Tarih. He prepared the first documentary Turkish encyclopedia, which included the years from 1071 to 1997. In a 1989 local by-election the True Path Party chose him to be the mayoral candidate of İstanbul’s Adalar District. He was selected as a member of the International Security and Peace Parliament located in Italy, and was appointed to the Turkish Embassy (10.03.1990). He has represented Turkey at a great deal at scientific meetings.

He is a life-long member of the American Biography Institute, the Brussels Documentation and European Scientific Research Institute, a lifelong member of the World Literature Academy, the Armenian Philosophy Academy of Academic Counselors Institute, the Turkish Press Union, the Writers Syndicate of Turkey and many international scientific organizations. He has received many awards such as the Select Leadership Prize by the American Biography Institute (1991), the Extraordinary Professional Achievement Award by the American Biography Institute (1992), the 20th Century Prize (1997) and the Da Vinci Award (2004).

WORKS:

Türkçe'de Anlamdaş ve Karşıt Kelimeler Sözlüğü (Turkish Synonyms and Antonyms Dictionary, 1965), Okyanus Ansiklopedik Sözlük (Ocean Encyclopedic Turkish Dictionary - 5 volumes, 1974), Osmanlı Mimarlığında Batılılaşma ve Balyan Ailesi (Westernization in Ottoman Architecture and the Balyan Family, 1981), Ayvazovski Türkiye'de (Ayvazovski is in Turkey, 1983), Bulgaristan ve Türk-Bulgar İlişkileri (Bulgaria and Turkish-Bulgarian Relations, 1984), Arpaçay ve Yöresi (Arpaçay and the Arpaçay Region, 1984), Türkiye'de Kadın (Women in the Turkey- volume 1: Women in İstanbul the Ottoman Period, 1984; volume 2: Women of the Ottoman Palaces, 1985), Geleneksel Türk Süsleme Sanatında Bir Kadın Sanatçı (A Women Artist in Traditional Decorative Art, 1985), Osmanlı Şehirleri (Ottoman Cities,1986), Mehterhane'den Bandoya (From the Mehter (palace musicians) house to the Band, 1986), Çağdaş Türkiye (Modern Turkey - 3 volumes , 1987), Karsanlar'ın Dünyası (The World of Karsanlar,1988), Tarih Boyunca İstanbul Adaları (The İstanbul Islands in History - 2 volumes, 1989-92), İstanbul Ermeni Kiliseleri (İstanbul’s Armenian Churches,1991), Çırağan Palace (Çırağan Palace, 1992), Ermeni Edebiyatından Seçmeler (Selections from Armenian Literature,1992), Dadyan Ailesi’nin Osmanlı Sosyal, Ekonomik ve Siyaset Hayatındaki Rolü (The Role of the Dadyan Family in Ottoman Social, Economic and Political Life, 1993), The Role of the Dadian Family in Ottoman Social, Economic and Political Life (Dadyan Ailesi’nin Osmanlı Sosyal, Ekonomik ve Siyaset Hayatındaki Rolü (1993), Tarih Boyunca Batı Ermenileri (West Armenians in History, 2004). 

In addition he wrote foreign language, medical and law dictionaries.

REFERENCE: Aykut Kazancıgil-Vural Solok / Türk Bilim Tarihi Bibliyografyası (1981), Atilla Özkırımlı / Türk Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi (1983), Cumhuriyet (25.9.1983, 31.10.1984, 25.1.1994), Orkestra Dergisi (Kasım 1984), Meydan Larousse Büyük Lûgat ve Ansiklopedisi, c: XII, s: 302 (1969, 1973), Ana Britannica (c. 21,1990), Aram Orçanyan / Hagop Baronyan (1991), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (1999), İhsan Işık / Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) – Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors (2005) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007) – Ünlü Bilim Adamları (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 2, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013).

 

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