Educator and writer (b. 1912, Damascus
/ Syria - d. ?). He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature
(1934). In the same year, he began to work as a teacher at Erzurum High School.
He also served at Ankara High School for Boys, Gazi High School, and the Music
Teacher Training School. In 1947, he became a reporter to the Committee of
Teaching and Training. He gave lectures on Turkish folk literature at Belgrade
University, Faculty of Turkology. Between 1961 and 1963, he worked as a
lecturer at Erzurum Atatürk University, Faculty of Literature. He became a
member of the Committee of Teaching and Training in 1964 and a ministry
inspector in 1966. A year later, he was appointed as a lecturer to the Gazi
Institute of Education.
WORKS:
Bizde
Türkçülük Cereyanının Kaynakları
(Origins of Turkist Movement in our Country, 1933), İzahlı Eski Metinler Antolojisi (Anthology of Old Texts with
Explanations, 1943), Ziya Paşa'nın
Hayatı, Sanatı, Eserleri (Life, Art and Works of Ziya Paşa, 1953), Recaizade Ekrem, Sanatı ve Eserleri
(Recaizade Ekrem, His Life and Works, 1954), Süleyman Nazif, Sanatı ve Eserleri (Süleyman nazif, His Life and
Works, 1955).
