Afet İnan
Afet İnan (* 1908 in Thessaloniki ; † June 8, 1985 in Ankara ) was a Turkish historian and sociologist .
Life
Ayşe Afet İnan was one of the adopted daughters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk . She was born in Thessaloniki in 1908 and then lived in the Ottoman Empire .
In 1925 she graduated from the Bursa School of Teaching for Girls and started working as a primary school teacher in Izmir . She first met Mustafa Kemal in October during his visit to Izmir that year. Afet was sent to Lausanne by Ataturk in 1925 to learn the French language . In 1927 she went back and campaigned for the establishment of the French "Notre Dame de Sion College for Girls" in Istanbul.
After the school opened, she was appointed a secondary school history teacher. In 1935 Afet İnan went back to Switzerland to study history at the University of Geneva . Upon her return, she received a doctorate in sociology in 1939. In her dissertation, she tried to prove that Anatolia was the home of the Turkish race. Accordingly, the history of the Turks begins in the Neolithic. Inan's view, the Hittites, Seljuks and Ottomans had identical characteristics. Turks therefore did not belong to the "yellow race". Afet tried to prove the thesis with anthropometric measurements. From 1937, with the help of the health authorities in Turkey, measurements were taken on 64,000 people. In 1950 she became a professor at Ankara University . She was a co-founder and a senior member of the Türk Tarih Kurumu , the Turkish Institute of History.
İnan died in Ankara on June 8, 1985. She was buried in the Cebeci municipal cemetery . She left her husband Rıfat, daughter Arı and son Demir.
The Afet İnan Historical Studies Prize is awarded every two years by the Turkish History Foundation in collaboration with the İnans family.
Fonts
- Medeni bilgiler ve M. Kemal Ataturk'ün el yazıları, Ankara, Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1969
- Ataturk'ten yazdıklarım, Ankara, 1969
- Recherches Sur les Caractéres Anthropologiques des Population de la Turquie, Genève, 1939
- Türk Amirali Piri Reis ' in Hayatı ve Eserleri
- L'émancipation de la Femme Turque
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | İnan, Afet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish historian and a sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thessaloniki |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1985 |
| Place of death | Ankara |