Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (also Hüseyin Rahmi ; * 1864 in Constantinople , † 1944 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish novelist and literary translator.
The professional writer, who came from a family of civil servants, was a member of the Turkish parliament between 1936 and 1943. A number of his novels, which, according to Wilpert's Lexicon of World Literature , contain “readable, folkloric and linguistically rich descriptions of Turkish life on the eve of a new era”, appeared early in German, such as Die Erzieherin und Die Geschiedene in 1907 and The Lovesick Bey .
Single receipts
- ↑ Gero von Wilpert (ed.): Lexicon of world literature. Foreign language authors; Volume A – K, Kröner 2004, p. 718.
literature
- O.Spies: The modern Turkish literature in: Handbuch der Orientalistik: Turkologie , BRILL, 1982, ISBN 9004065555 , S349
Web links
- Information on the life and work of Gürpınar on the website of the Turkish Ministry of Culture (Turkish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gürpınar, Hüseyin Rahmi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huseyin Rahmi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |
| Place of death | Istanbul |