Researcher and writer (b.
1900, İstanbul – d. 1977). His real name was Ahmet Nevzat Cerrahoğlu. He used
different pen names on his publications after 1960 such as A. Cerrahoğlu. After
he completed his primary and secondary education, he entered the Faculty of
Medicine but didn’t graduate. His first article was published in the newspaper Ahenk (İzmir) in 1918. Kerim Sadi was
one of the founders of the magazine Aydınlık,
and published about forty compilations and translated booklets under
the name of the Library of Humanity. He became known for the speeches he made
on Marxism around universities and although he is counted as one of Turkey’s
first Marxist theorists, he didn’t leave a serious work about the subject.
WORKS:
Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun Dağılma Devri ve Tarihi
Maddecilik (The Repartition Period of the Ottoman Empire and
Historical Materialism, 1941), Türk
Kleopatrası (Turkish Cleopatra, 1948), Namık
Kemal (Namık Kemal, 1952), Bir İslam
Reformatörü-Mehmet Akif (An Islamic Reformist-Mehmet Akif, 1964), Nazım Hikmet’in İlk Şiirleri (The First
Poems of Nazım Hikmet, 1969), Türkiye’de
Sosyalizmin Tarihine Katkı (The Contribution of Socialism to the History of
Turkey, 1975).
