Damat Mahmud Pasha

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Damat Mahmud Pascha , also Mahmud Âsâf and Mahmud Celâleddin , (* 1853 in Constantinople ; † January 17, 1903 in Brussels ) was an Ottoman politician.

Life

Damat Mahmud Pascha was born in 1853 under the name Mahmud Celâleddin as the son of the wealthy Minister of the Navy, Damat Halil Pascha . Although he lost his father at an early age, he was able to afford a good education and then entered the service of the Sublime Porte and worked in the Ottoman embassy in Paris.

After his marriage to Sultan Abdülmecid's daughter Saliha Sultan , he was called Damat Mahmud Pascha . After holding several positions at the Sultan's court, he was promoted to the rank of vizier on March 30, 1877 . From April 18, 1878 he was Minister of Justice and member of the Ottoman State Council ( Şûrâ-yı Devlet ).

After the Pasha was accused of being involved in a failed assassination attempt on Sultan Abdülhamid II , he had to flee to Europe with his two sons. Although the innocence turned out later and the Sultan tried to persuade Mahmud Pasha to return, Damat Mahmud Pasha felt himself betrayed and stayed abroad. There he came into contact with the movement of the Young Turks and campaigned with them for reforms in the Ottoman Empire. Mahmud Pasha lived in Marseille, Paris, Geneva and London, lived briefly in Egypt and finally on Corfu. When he got sick, he moved first to Rome and then to Brussels.

It is unclear what illness Mahmud Pasha suffered from. Some sources cite proteinuria as a symptom, others uremia . When the Sultan learned of the illness of his niece's former friend and husband, he demanded that he be brought back to Constantinople, not least because he hoped that this would weaken the Young Turks. But Mahmud Pasha died earlier.

After his death, the Sultan campaigned for a burial in the Ottoman Empire, but his son, Prince Sabahaddin , was against it. Damat Mahmud Pasha was buried in Paris. It was not until five years after his death that the remains were brought to the Ottoman Empire and buried in the Eyup Sultan cemetery.

Damat Mahmud Pasha was already known as a poet during his lifetime. He published several works under the pseudonym Mahmud Asâf. His divan , published in 1898, was relocated in Egypt.

literature

  • Ömür Ceylan: Asaf Divanı Hanedanda Bir Asi: Damad Mahmud Celaleddin Paşa: hayatı, edebi kişiliği ve Divanı . Akçağ Yayınları, Ankara 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Serif Demir: Damat Mahmut Celâleddin Paşa ve Cenazesi . Ataturk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi, No. 47 (2012), pp. 177–188, here 178
  2. ↑ Şerif Demir (2012), p. 178
  3. ↑ Şerif Demir (2012), p. 179
  4. ↑ Şerif Demir (2012), p. 179
  5. ↑ Şerif Demir (2012), p. 180f.
  6. ↑ Şerif Demir (2012), p. 185
personal data
SURNAME Damat Mahmud Pasha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahmud Asâf; Mahmud Celâleddin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1903
Place of death Brussels