Zeki Velidi Togan

Türkolog, Tarihçi, Siyasetçi

Doğum
10 Aralık, 1890
Ölüm
26 Temmuz, 1970
Burç
Diğer İsimler
Ahmed Zeki Velidi

Historian and politician (b. 1890, Sterlitamak / Bashkiria– d. 26 July 1970, İstanbul). He graduated from Ötek Madrasah Theology School, Gayri Russian School and Kazan University. He gave lessons in Arab literature and Turkish history at Muslim Theology School in Kasimiye (Kazan) and Osmaniye (Ufa). In the last period of Tsarist Russia (1916), he was selected to the Duma (advisory council to the Tzar) as the representative of the Ufa Muslims. After the revolution he became the president of Bashkiria (1920). However, after a short time, he had conflicts with the soviet administration and continued his resistance in Turkistan. When he was not able to attain the objective that he expected, he moved first to Paris, then Berlin and finally to Turkey. He was appointed to İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature as a general Turkish history teacher in 1927. However, because of his ideas against official history doctrine he was dismissed (1932). Thus, he went to Vienna and completed his PhD. His PhD thesis was "İbn-i Fadlan'ın Seyahatnamesi" (The Travel Book of İbn-i Fadlan). He gave lectures on Islamic Sciences at Bonn and Göttingen Universities in Germany (1935-39) after he had completed his PhD.

He worked at İstanbul University when he returned to Turkey. Meanwhile he was questioned and charged with wishing to establish a government based on Turan thought. When he was acquitted, he continued his work at his university. During this period, he founded the Islamic Research Institution and published many works on Islamic Civilization and Turkish History.

He bought the private library of Prof. Nikolay Katinov (1862-1922) who was a Sagay (southern Mongolia) Turk and his teacher when he was in Kazakhstan and he brought this library to Turkey. That library is housed at the Turkology Institution today. Togan did research on history, literature and ethnography in Fergana and Buhara in the name of the History, Geography and Ethnography Association of the university in which he was educated. During this research, he discovered a new manuscript by Kaşgarlı Mahmud named Kutadgu Bilig, which is considered one of the most important sources of Turkish literature. He is known for his valuable scientific research on Islamic and Turkish history and civilization.

WORKS:

Bugünkü Türkili ve Yakın Tarihi (Turkey Today and its Recent History, 1942), Umumi Türk Tarihine Giriş I (Introduction to General Turkish History I, 1946), Tarihte Usul (Method in History, 1950), Horezmce Tercümeli Mukaddemet'ül Edep (Khorezmien Glossary of the Mukaddemat’ül Edep, 1951), Hatıralar (Memoirs, 1969), Türklüğün Mukadderatı Üzerine (The Fate of the Turkish, 1970), Oğuz Destanı (The Oghuz Legend, translation and analysis of the Oghuz Book of Reşidettin, 1972)

REFERENCE: 60. Doğum Yılı Münasebetiyle Zeki Velidi Togan’a Armağan (1950-55), Ahmed Zeki Velidi Togan Özel Sayısı (Erzurum Atatürk Ü. Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Araştırma Dergisi, sayı: 13, Erzurum 1985), Ahmed Zeki Velidi Togan / Hatıralar (1969), Büyük Larousse (s. 11572, 11896; 1990), İhsan Işık / Yazarlar Sözlüğü (1990, 1998) - 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), Ertuğrul Yaman / Türkiye’deki Türk Dünyası (A. K. Bolaç – A. Esatoğlu ile, 1998), Necmettin Sefercioğlu / Zeki Velidi Togan (Orkun, Temmuz 1999), Hüdavendigar Onur / Türk Sağı Sözlüğü (2001).

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