İzzet Gündağ Kayaoğlu

Araştırmacı, Yazar

Doğum
06 Aralık, 1945
Ölüm
08 Mayıs, 2003
Eğitim
Galatasaray High School of Economics and Commerce
Burç

Researcher and writer (b. 6 December 1945, Gelibolu / Çanakkale - d. 9 May 2003, İstanbul). Because of his father’s job as an army officer, he completed his primary and secondary education in different parts of the country. He graduated from Haydarpaşa High School (1963) and Galatasaray High School of Economics and Commerce (1969). In 1964-1969, he was involved in theatre as an amateur and as a professional. From 1962 in İstanbul, he was a shareholder and manager of a copper company that his grandfather was involved in. In addition to this, he was the general publishing manager of Anatolian Art Publications until he died. He was a member of many social services associations, the Writers Syndicate of Turkey, the History Foundation, the PEN Association of Writers, he was a founder member of the Trabzon Research Centre Foundation, an honorary member of the Foundation for the Preservation of Turkish Monuments and Environment and a High Consultative Committee member of the Foundation for the Protection and Promotion of Environmental and Cultural Heritage. He is buried in Karacaahmet Graveyard.

His first article connected to copper work, “Copper Ewers” was published in Turing magazine in English in 1979. His articles were published in magazines and journals such as Sanat Tarihi Yıllığı, Türk Folklor Araştırmaları, Türk Folkloru, Arkeoloji ve Sanat, Folklor ve Etnoğrafya Araştırmaları (1984), Halk Kültürü, Journal of Turkish Studies, Antika, Türk Folklorcu Belleten, İmage, Kıyı, Antik Dekor, İş Bankası Kültür Sanat Dergisi, Tarih ve Toplum and İstanbul.

He carried out regular research on the art of Anatolian handmade copper for thirty years. He collected examples and determined the characteristics of the forms of copper-made pots and kettles that changed according to different geographical regions. He assembled a rich collection of hand tools used in copper work art. He did research in Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to determine the extent of Turkish copper-work art in Central Europe and the Balkans. He did comparative research and classification in these countries by visiting the important copper centers that had strong traces of the art of Turkish copper work.

He wrote material related to copper work for Encyclopedia Britannica. He wrote articles connected to copper work and related terms in Grand Larousse to which he also supplied visual material. He wrote on the same subject for İstanbul Encyclopedia. The İhsan Hınçer Award for Contribution to Turkish Folklore, which has been given since 1982, was given to him in 1984.

WORKS:

Folklor ve Etnoğrafya Araştırmaları 1984 (Research on Folklore and Ethnography, with İ. Aslanoğlu, A. Oy and S. Koz, 1984), Folklor ve Etnoğrafya Araştırmaları 1985 (Research on Folklore and Ethnography 1985, with İ. Aslanoğlu, A. Oy and S. Koz), Türk Folkloru Belleten 1986/1 (Turkish Folklore Bulletin, with E. Aslanoğlu, 1986), Türk Folklorü Belleten 1986/2 (Turkish Folklore Bulletin, with E. Aslanoğlu, 1986), Türk Folklorü Belleten 1987 1/2 (Turkish Folklore Bulletin 1987 1/2, with E. Aslanoğlu, 1987), Trabzon Kültür Yıllığı 1987 (Trabzon Culture Almanac 1987, with M. Duman, Ş. Şatıroğlu 1987), Trabzon Kültür Yıllığı 1988-89 (Trabzon Culture Almanac 1988-89, with M. Duman, Ş. Şatıroğlu, 1989), Türk Halk Bilimi ile İlgili Kitaplar İçin Bir Bibliyografya Denemesi / 1985-1990 (An Essay on the Bibliography of Books Related to Turkish Folklore / 1985-1990,1991), Eski İstanbul’da Gündalik Hayat (Daily Life in Old İstanbul, with Ersu Pekin, 1992), Tombak (Gold Plated Copper, 1992), Anadolu’da Türk Bakırcılık Sanatının Gelişimi – Bakır Yatakları Üretimi ve Atölyeleri (The Development of the Art of Turkish Copper Work in Anatolia – The Production and Workshops of Copper  Products, with Associate Prof. Oktay Belli, 1993), Atatürk ve Kurtuluş Şiirleri Antolojisi (Anthology of Atatürk and Independence Poems, (with Ö. Ciraoğlu, 1986), Bir Tutkudur Trabzon (Trabzon is a Passion, with Öner Ciravoğlu, Cüneyt Akalın, 1987).

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