Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan

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Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan was an Ottoman and Turkish teacher of mathematics , geography and calligraphy at the Robert College of Istanbul . He became known for drafting the signature of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the founder of the Turkish Republic. In addition, Çerçiyan was a teacher of well-known Turkish politicians.

The signature designed by Hagop Çerçiyan, which was ultimately chosen by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk .

Life

The Armenian origin Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan was a teacher. He traveled across the United States to study the Palmer Method , which was becoming popular at the time. He taught this to his students. He returned to Istanbul and became a teacher of math, geography and calligraphy at Robert College. In his 55 years at Robert College, Çerçiyan has taught more than 25,000 students, including future Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit , Foreign Minister Selim Sarper , diplomat Rıfat Turgut Menemencioğlu and Cabinet Minister Kassem Gulek.

Ataturk's signature

During the founding years of the Turkish Republic, a Latin-based alphabet was introduced to replace the Perso-Ottoman alphabet used until then . As part of the reforms, Turkish citizens were required to adopt a family name by Law No. 2525 of June 21, 1934 . But even before that, Turkish citizens of Christian and Jewish religious affiliation used surnames - but not Muslims. Mustafa Kemal Pascha himself also had to take a surname and the Grand National Assembly gave him the surname Ataturk , which means "father of the Turks". Many members of parliament, including many of Çerçiyan's former students, suggested that Ataturk adopt a new signature for his name. On a November morning in 1934, these members of parliament presented the Çerçiyan proposal to undertake this task. That night, five signatures prepared that morning were proposed and police officers collected them. Ataturk chose the one with “K. Ataturk ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU: Ataturk's signature came from hand of Armenian-Turkish master. Hürriyet , October 29, 2010, accessed January 8, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU: Ataturk'ün imzasının öyküsü. Radikal , November 10, 2010, accessed January 8, 2013 (Turkish).
  3. ↑ Ramazan Demir: Ermeni isyanı ve Harput Ermenileri: Ararat-Gakgoş diyaloğu . Ed .: Palme Yayıncılık. Ankara 2009, ISBN 978-6-05582922-3 (Turkish).
  4. ↑ Cafer Ulu: Türkiye cumhuriyeti'nde Ermeniler . Ed .: Ataturk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Ataturk Araştırma Merkezi. Ankara 2009, ISBN 978-975-16-2143-6 , pp. 122 (Turkish, Çerçiyan'dan bizzat duyduğunu ve Ankara`dan istenen 5 adet imza ömeğindcn birini Ataturk`ün scçtiğini söylemiştir.).
personal data
SURNAME Çerçiyan, Hagop Vahram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cerciyan, Hagop Vahram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish college teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century