Poet
(b. 1828, Leskofça / Yugoslavia – d. 1867, İstanbul). His real name was
Mustafa. He had private lessons as a child. After he settled in İstanbul with
his family (1846), he worked as a clerk and head of official correspondence in
state offices in İstanbul (1849), Bosnia (1851), Crimea (1853), Van and again
in İstanbul and for a period, he served as the Governor of the District of
Panoloka (1852). He worked as a writer at Tuna newspaper when Mithat Paşa was governor and he worked as a
clerk in Halep when Ahmet Cevdet Paşa was governor. Lastly, he served in the
retinue of Mustafa Nail Paşa in Crete (1866).
He
is regarded as one of the last great poets of divan literature with his
gleaming language and enthusiastic style in his poems, which carry a sense of
Sufism. The Divan of Leskofçalı Galip, who won the
appreciation and admiration of the famous poets of the day such as Yenişehirli
Avni, Namık Kemal and Ziya Paşa, was published with a preface by İbnülemin
Mahmut Kemal (1919).
