Hâmit Zübeyir Koşay

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Hâmit Zübeyir Koşay , also Hâmit Zübeyr Koşay (* 1897 in Tilenkçi Tamak, Ujesd Menselinsk , Ufa Governorate , Russian Empire ; † October 2, 1984 in Ankara ) was a Turkish archaeologist and ethnologist .

Life

Koşay was the son of the scientist Ubeydullah Efendi. His ethnic origin is controversial among today's Bashkirs and Tatars , because the place of birth is on the territory of the present Republic of Tatarstan , but on the other hand the area around Menselinsk was an important Bashkir settlement area at the turn of the 20th century; however, the demarcation between the two population groups was partly blurred and did not play a significant role in Koşay's further life and work.

With the support of his brother-in-law Rızaeddin Fahreddin, he was sent to the Ottoman Empire for training in 1909 . After completing his education at the central high school in Selanik , at the beginning of the Balkan wars , he went to Istanbul , where he began a teacher training course, which he completed in 1916. After listening to lectures in ethnology and Hungarian, he continued his pedagogical studies at the Eötvös College with Gyula Németh in Budapest . After his doctorate in philology and Turkish studies , he went to Germany at the University of Berlin and studied Turkish Linguistics at Willi Bang Kaup . In 1925 he returned to Turkey and took a position in the Ministry of Education. From 1938 he was responsible for the restoration of the buildings of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations . He later became director of the Ethnographic Museum in Ankara and director of the Department of Antiquities and Museums in the Ministry of Culture. Koşay retired in 1969.

As a member of the Turkish Historical Society , Koşay was involved in numerous excavations in Turkey, including in Alaca Höyük , Kumtepe , Pazarlı and Büyük Güllücek .

Koşay was a member of numerous Turkish and international scientific institutions, including the German Archaeological Institute , and a founding member of the Turkish Historical Society and the Society for Turkish Language . He is considered one of Turkey's outstanding archaeologists.

Koşay's grave is in the Cebeci Cemetery in Ankara .

Publications

In addition to excavation reports and numerous works on folklore topics, Koşay also published a novel and short stories under the pseudonym Şerafettin Işık:

  • Yuvak Taşı , novel, 1947
  • Dokuz Ötkünç , nine short stories, 1929
  • Cıncık (Keban Barajı Öyküsü, Cincik, The Story of the Keban Dam ), 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey: Ankara - Ethnographic Museum
  2. ^ Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Koşay, Hâmit Zübeyir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koşay, Hâmit Zübeyr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish prehistorian and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Tilenkçi Tamak near Menselinsk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1984
Place of death Ankara