Ahmet İhsan Tokgöz

Journalist and writer (b. 1869, Erzurum – d. 28 September 1942, İstanbul). He graduated from the School of Politics (1887). Having started his journalist career in his student years, he wrote first in the reviews Şafak (1886) and Umran (1889) and then he published the famous review Servet-i Fünûn (1891). He made Tevfik Fikret head of this review with the help of Recaizade Ekrem. He translated novels from French. Besides publishing the review, he also worked as a civil servant. He worked as a teacher at the Commerce School, and was the mayor of Beyoğlu Municipality (1912) and Ordu parliamentary deputy for three terms in the years 1931-1935, 1935-1939 and 1939-1942. He spoke German and French.

The most important feature of Ahmet İhsan is that he published the review Servet-i Fünûn, which takes a special place in our literature, as it was the review that was published for the longest time. The review Servet-i Fünûn was published two more years after the death of its founder and closed on 25 May 1944 with its 2461^st. issue

WORKS:

STUDY-COLLECTION: Takvim-i Ümran (Calendar of Prosperity, 1885), Nev Usul Fotoğraf (The New Style of Photography), İlm-i Servet (Scientific Wealth 1888), Asyay-ı Şarki'ye Seyahat (Journey to the Orient in Asia, 1888), Küçük Fıkralar (Little Anecdotes, 1888), Bir Facia (A Disaster, 1889), Demiryolları (Railways, 1889), Fenni Eğlenceler (Technological Entertainments, 1889), Postacı (The Postman, 1889), Bahse Ne Dersiniz (Gamble, What do You say? 1889), Ülfet (Experiences, 1889), Musavver Nevsal-i Servet-i Fünûn (The New Illustrated Scientific Wealth, five volumes special for Hegira 1891 - 1892, 1895 - 1898), Musavver Servet-i Fünûn' un Tarihçesi (A Brief History of the Illustrated Scientific Wealth 1908), Tirol Cephesinde Ateş Hattında (Under Fire at the Tyrol Frontier, 1917), Cemiyet-i Akvam'a Mü-zaheret Cemiyetleri Beynelmilel İttihatı (International Aid Societies of the United Nations, Sekizinci Lyon Kongresine Ait Rapor (Report on the Eighth Lyon Congress - Bala Ekalliyet Komisyonuna Ait Rapor, Report of the Commission of Small Minorities, with Cemil Birsel, 1340), Haver (The Orient, ts.).

TRAVEL LITERATURE: Avrupa'da Ne Gördüm (What Did I See in Europe? 1892), Altı Hafta Nil'de Seyahat (Six-Week Journey on the Nile, 1893), Tuna'da Bir Hafta (A Week in the Danube, 1907).

MEMOIR: Matbuat Hatıralarım (My Memoirs in Journalism, 2 volumes, 1930-31).

He also translated from Jules Verne, Georges Ohnet, Andre Thevriet and Paul Bourget.