Divan poet (B. 1748,
Sutluce / Istanbul – D. 1796). His real name is Mehmed. He was grown up with good
madrasah training. He learned Arabic, Persian, Latin and Italian. He entered in
the Mevlevi order and became “Dede” at Galata Mevlevihane, of which Sheikh
Galip was the sheikh. He died very young and his tomb is in Galati Mevlevihane.
Upon his death, Sheikh
Galip wrote a famous elegy for Esrar Dede; and he has works consisting of his
mystic and non-mystic poems 3920 verses long Türkçe Divan; and Tezkire-i Şuarayı Mevleviye (1976) which
tells the life of Mevlevi poets, a dictionary and grammar book in Italian and
Greek named Lugat-ı Tilyan and discovered by Ali Emiri. His collection
of biographies was summarized by Ali Enver in 1891 and published under the
title Semahâne-i Edeb.
REFERENCE: Bursalı Mehmed Tahir / Osmanlı Müellifleri I (1972), Hasan Aksoy / TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (vol. 11, 1995), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).
