Historian
of literature and poet (b. 1899, İstanbul - d. 18 December 1967). He attended
the Galatasaray High School (1908), and graduated from the School of Law
(1911). He worked as a civil officer at the clerk of Administration of Foreign
Debts, and as a teacher of literature at Galatasaray High School and Robert
College (1914), as the assistant-headmaster at Kadıköy High School (1915),
headmaster at Ankara High School for Girls, teacher of literature at Atatürk
Institute, headmaster at Cyprus High School for Girls, as an inspector at
ministry and as a civil officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He
gave lectures on Turkish literature for four years at Baku University, where he
went on invitation. He worked as a teacher at high schools on his return and
retired when he was a professor at İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature,
Department of Old Turkish Literature (1958). He was one of the recent famous
historians of literature.
WORKS:
SHORT
STORY: Vuslat-ı Memnua (Happy Meeting,
long story, 1908), Ateş Olur da Yakmaz mı
(Does Fire Not Burn?, long story, 1924).
POETRY:
Kır Çiçekleri (Flowers on the Step,
1915).
PLAY:
Hesab İmtihanı (Exam of Accounts,
piece in verse, 1917).
TEXT
BOOK: Kıraat Dersleri (Lessons of
Reading the Koran, for primary schools, 1919),
Kıraat Dersleri (Lessons of
Reading the Koran, five volumes, illustrated, 1934).
RESEARCH-STUDY:
Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi (History of
Turkish Literature, volume 1 Baku, 1925), Türk
Edebiyatı Tarihi (History of Turkish Literature, Ottoman period, Baku,
1928), Yunan Edebiyatı Tarihi
(History of Greek Literature, 1928), Azerbaycan
Edebiyatı Tarihi (History of Azerbaijani Literature, 1928), Kıbrıs Türk Alfabesi (Cyprus Turkish
Alphabet, 1934), Latin Edebiyatı Tarihi
(History of Latin Literature, 1937), Çağatay
Edebiyatı (Çağatay Literature, 1937), Tarih-i
Edirne (History of Edirne), Hikâye-i
Beşir Çelebi (Story of Beşir Çelebi, 1946), Fatih ve Fütuhan (Fatih and Fütühan, volume 1, 1952), Adilşahiler, Hindistan'da Bir İslâm Devleti
(Adilşahis, An Islamic State in India, 1953), Fatih'in Akdeniz ve Adalar Denizi Fütuhatı (Conquests in the
Mediterrenean and Islands by Fatih Sultan Mehmet, 1965), Fatih Devrinde Tezhib Sanatı (The Art of Book-binding at the Time
of Fatih Sultan Mehmet, 1966), Tevfik Fikret Mirsad'da (Tevfik Fikret
in Mirsad, 1966), Tevfik Fikret
Malûmat'da (Tevfik Fikret in Documents, 1967).
BIOGRAPHY:
Abdülhak Hamid, Ahmet Midhat Efendi,
Ahmet Vefik Paşa, Nabizade Nâzım, Namık Kemal, Recaizade Ekrem, Şinasi, Tevfik
Fikret (Abdülhak Hamid, Ahmet Midhat Efendi, Ahmet Vefik Paşa, Nabizade
Nâzım, Namık Kemal, Recaizade Ekrem, Şinasi, Tevfik Fikret; Ziya Paşa also published separately, 1932), Ahmed Hikmet, İsmail Safa, Koca Ragıp Paşa ve Fitnat (Ahmed Hikmet,
İsmail Safa, Koca Ragıp Paşa and Fitnat; 1933),
Sultan Cem Hayatı ve Eserleri (Sultan
Cem, His Lie and Works, 1951), Gazi Bora
Giray (Gazi Bora Giray, 1958), Tevfik
Fikret (Tevfik Fikret, 1963), Dante
(Dante, 1964), Goethe (Goethe, 1964),
Bayron (Byron, 1965), Şiller (Schiller, 1965), Vagner (Vagner, 1965), List (List, 1965), Babür Şah (Babür Şah, 1966).
