Poet (b. 1505, Trabzon - d. 1532,
İstanbul). He studied medicine in Isfahan (Iran). After he returned to
İstanbul, he studied literature and found a small job as a librarian. A Persian
couplet that he recounted because Chancellor İbrahim Paşa had commissioned a
sculpture of himself from Budin and put it in front of his palace in the
Hippodrome resulted in his being executed when he was very young. The verse
was:
One destroyed idols, one put
them up.
REFERENCE: Abdülkadir Karahan / Figanî ve Divançesi (1966) - TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (c. 13, 1996), Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (18. bas. 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (6. bas. 1999), İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007)