Poet and writer (b. 1854, Yozgat – d. 1918, İstanbul). He also wrote under the pseudonym Ziya Hayri. He grew up taking private lessons after having attended Elementary School. He worked as a secretariat of official correspondence, assistant public prosecutor and judge in various cities. He was buried in Merkez Efendi Cemetery.
WORKS:
POETRY: Tabsıra Yahut Adana Temaşâsı (My Life or Adana Spectacle, 1896), Kastamonu, Küre, İnebolu Temaşası (Kastamonu, Küre, İnebolu Spectacle, 1896), Temaşayı Celal-i Huda (Spectacle of Glorious God, 1896), Zemzeme-i Zafer (The Fine Voice of Victory, 1898), Birinci Mecmua-i Eş’arım yahut Nevbaharım (My Poems in the First Review or the Spring, 1898), Evsâf-ı Seniye-i Hamîdiyeden Bir Şemne (1898), Barika-i Teessür (1909), Vaveylayı Peder yahut Evlat Acısı (Father’s Scream or Grief for Deceased Child, 1914).
STUDY-COLLECTION: Müntehabât-ı Şahname-i Firdevsi-i Tûsî (Selections from Şahname of Firdevsi-i Tûsi, 1889), Medâr-ı Mükâleme (The Subject of Conversation, Turkish-Arabian-Persian, 1889), Mirat-ı Muhammediye ve Menâkıb-ı Ahmediye (1895).
