Poet
(b. 1833, Florina – d. 1939, İstanbul). He studied law in İstanbul. He worked
as a civil officer at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as the manager of the
review Polis Mecmuası at the Security
Department, and as the head of Branch of Publications at the Security
Department. His rejected to be registered as a lawyer to the İstanbul Chamber
of Lawyers, due to mental fatigue.
He
wrote proper poems in language and technique; however, he gained his real fame
with his megalomania that made others to laugh at him. He declared himself “the
king of poetry”in his late years. He published poems and articles praising
himself in newspapers (İbrahim Alaaddin Gövsa). Though his poetry book was not
published, he published twelve brochures boosting him.
