Researcher-writer (b. 1899, İstanbul -
d. 1968). He graduated from İstanbul Law School (1926). He started his academic
career as an assistant in the same faculty (1937); completed his doctorate at
the same place; and became associate professor in 1939 and professor in 1946.
Baysun, who became an ordinary professor in 1960, was the founder of İstanbul
University, Faculty of Literature’s History Review and worked as a delegate
member and a director at the Institute of Turcology Research and at TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (The Turkish
Foundation for Religious Affairs' Islamic Encyclopedia, 1950-51)
WORKS:
Boğaziçi İskelelerine Dair Bir Risale (A Pamphlet About
Bosphorus Wharfs, 1945), Cem Sultan
Hayatı ve Şiirleri (Life and Poetry of Sultan Cem, 1946), Tiryaki Hasan Paşa ve Kanije Savaşı
(Tiryaki Hasan Paşa and the War of Kanizsa, 1950), Cevdet Paşa'nın Tezakiri (Biographical
Memoir of Cevdet Paşa, 4 volumes, 1953-1967), Mevâidü'n-Nefâis fi Kavaidi'l-Mecâlis (Delicious Tables in the
Rules of Councils, by Gelibolu Ali, 1956).