Halil Edhem Eldem
Halil Edhem Eldem (* 1861 in Bebek , Istanbul ; † November 16, 1938 there ; also called Halil Edhem Bey ) was a pioneer of archeology in Turkey .
Life
Halil Edhem Eldem was born as the son of the later Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire İbrahim Edhem Pasha . His brothers were the later painter and pioneer of Turkish archeology Osman Hamdi Bey and İsmail Galib Bey, who later became a coin expert. After attending primary school and Kaptan Ibrahim Pascha Middle School in Istanbul, he completed his schooling in Berlin in 1875, where his father resided as an ambassador. At the request of his father, he then studied natural sciences in Zurich , Vienna and Bern . In Zurich he joined the Corps Helvetia . He completed his studies in Bern with a doctorate. However, his preference and inclination was for history and archeology.
After returning to Istanbul, he became a teacher in various schools and a lecturer at the University of Istanbul before becoming assistant director in the Istanbul Museum in 1889 . In 1892 he was appointed second director and in 1910, after the death of his older brother Osman Hamdi Bey, general director of the Istanbul Museum, which he headed until his retirement in 1931. Even in retirement he remained chairman of the committee for the preservation of archaeological monuments and remained a member of the Turkish parliament.
The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art was founded in 1914 under Halil Edhem Eldem as General Director of the Ancient Museums of Istanbul and in 1923 the Topkapi Palace was converted into a museum. He wrote numerous reports on the excavations in Didyma , Miletus , Priene and Ephesus . In order to introduce students to the museum holdings, he initiated the series of masterpieces from the Turkish Museums in Istanbul .
In the spring of 1918, Halil Bey initiated a Dr. Friedrich Schrader- led project for the systematic recording and cataloging of all ancient, Byzantine and Islamic cultural monuments in the then Ottoman capital. Schrader's team included the architecture professor Assym Bey, the archaeologist Mehmed Sia Bey, the architect Sühdi Bey and the photographer Hagop Iskender , then owner of the important photo studio Sabah und Joaillier. Towards the end of the war in 1918, the project was ended prematurely because Schrader had to leave town. Schrader later reported on the results of the work in a two-part article in the magazine " Der Neue Orient ".
Awards
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Basel
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig
- Honorary membership of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Honorary membership of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies in London
- Honorary membership of the German Archaeological Institute
- Honorary Professor of Istanbul University
literature
- Leo Aryeh Mayer In Memoriam: Halil Edhem Eldem (1861-1938). In: Ars Islamica. 6, 1939, pp. 198-201.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The part of the name Edhem is sometimes also written Ethem .
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 144 , 28.
- ^ Friedrich Schrader: The art monuments of Constantinople. In: The New Orient. Volume 5, 1919, pp. 302-304 and 352-354.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Edhem Eldem, Halil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Edhem-Bey, Halil; Eldem, Halil Edhem |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bebek , Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1938 |
| Place of death | Bebek , Istanbul |