Halil İnalcık

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Inalcik's tomb at the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul

Halil İnalcık (born May 26, 1916 in Istanbul , † July 25, 2016 in Ankara ) was a Turkish historian who specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire .

Life

İnalcık came from a Crimean Tatar family. His childhood was shaped by the war years of the First World War and the Turkish Liberation War . In 1924 his family moved from Istanbul to Ankara. There he attended Gazi Elementary School. After İnalcık's father, Seyit Bey , left his family and moved to Egypt , his mother was solely responsible for upbringing. İnalcık attended middle school in a boarding school in Sivas . In 1932 he attended the Necatibey Teachers' School in Balıkesir . His teachers were Nusret Kürkçüoğlu (physics) and Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı (literature). In 1935 he graduated from school and began his academic training at the Faculty of Language, History and Geography of Ankara University . His professors included Mehmet Fuat Köprülü , Şemsettin Günaltay , Muzaffer Göker and Yusuf Hikmet Bayur .

According to his own statement, he was mainly influenced by the lectures Köprülü on the Middle Ages. His doctoral thesis was titled Tanzimat and the Bulgarian question . This work, for which he researched in the Istanbul archives for two years, met with a great response. The Turkish Historical Society published the thesis and the Bulgarian Embassy in Ankara sent a delegation to thank İnalcık for the work on the history of Bulgaria. In 1972 he ended his 30 years of research and teaching in Turkey. After an invitation from the University of Chicago , he took up teaching there until 1986. There he also founded the Ottoman History Department. His work The Ottoman Empire, The Classical Age, 1300–1600 was published several times and is considered an authoritative work on the Ottoman Empire.

Since 1993 he has taught at Bilkent University . İnalcık was visiting professor at the Universities of Columbia, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Harvard. His publications include 20 books and 300 scientific articles and 43 articles in the Encyclopaedia of Islam .

His work as a historian was based on the Annales School . The UNESCO has asked for a project of a historical band in the world, among other İnalcık.

İnalcık was married and had a son. İnalcık spoke German, English and French, in addition he had language skills in Arabic and Persian and basic knowledge of Italian.

Awards

İnalcık's work has been recognized by awards from the Rockefeller Foundation , the Turkish Information Foundation (tr: Türk Tanıtma Vakfı ), the ODTÜ Mustafa Parlar Foundation, the Turkish Ministry of Defense, the Islamic Conference , and the Sedat-Simavi Foundation ( Sedat-Simavi Prize for Social Sciences, 1993). The Bosporus University , Uludağ and Selçuk Universitesi as well as universities in Athens, Jerusalem and Bucharest have awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1983 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1995 of the British Academy . İnalcık was also a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1995 he was awarded the Titulesco Medal for High Merits in the Romanian Embassy in Ankara . In 1998 the then President Süleyman Demirel awarded him the prize of the “Türkiyat Institute” of the University of Istanbul. In 2002 he received the Soranos Friendship Prize. In addition there was the Order for High Merits of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the “High Culture Prize” of the Turkish Ministry of Culture. In 2008 he received the honorary award of the parliament from the President of the Turkish Parliament, Köksal Toptan .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Ottoman Empire, The Classical Age, 1300–1600. London 1973, ISBN 1842124420 .
  • Studies in Ottoman social and economic history. London 1985.
  • The Middle East and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire. Bloomington, 1993.
  • Suleyman the second and his time. Istanbul 1993,
  • An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire. in collaboration with Donald Quataert, Cambridge, 1994.
  • From empire to republic. Essays on Ottoman and Turkish social history. Istanbul 1995.
  • Sources and studies on the Ottoman Black Sea. Cambridge, 1995
  • with Peter Burke: History of Humanity. 1999
  • with Gunsel Renda: Ottoman Civilization. Ankara 2003.
  • Essays in Ottoman History. Eren Yayıncılık Publishing House
  • Fatih devri üzerinde tetkikler ve vesikalar. (German: Studies and Documents of the Age of Sultan Fatih), Ankara 1954.
  • Osmanlı'da Devlet, Hukuk, Adalet. (German: State, Law and Justice in the Ottoman Empire) Eren Yayıncılık, 2000.
  • with Donald Quataert: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi Cilt 1 / 1300–1600. (German: Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Volume 1 / 1300–1600) Eren Yayıncılık Publishing House, 2001,
  • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi Cilt 2 / 1600–1914. (German: Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Volume 2 / 1300–1600) Eren Yayıncılık Publishing House, 2004.
  • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu - Toplum ve Ekonomi (German: Ottoman Empire - Society and Economy) Eren Yayıncılık Publishing House
  • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klasik Çağ (1300–1600). (German: Ottoman Empire - Classical Age (1300–1600)) Yapı Kredi Yayınları Publishing House, 2003.
  • Tanzimat ve Bulgar Meselesi ( Eng . The Tanzimat and the Bulgarian Question) Eren Yayıncılık publisher
  • ABD Tarihi. (History of the USA) Allan Nevins / Henry Steele Commager (translation), Doğu Batı Yayınları, 2005.
  • Şair ve patron. (German: poet and chief) publishing house Doğu Batı Yayınları, 2003.
  • with Erol Manisalı: Balkanlar. (German: The Balkans)
  • Devlet-i ʿAliyye - Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Üzerine Araştırmalar 1 - Klasik Dönem (1302–1606). Siyasal, kurumsal ve ekonomik gelişim. Istanbul 2009
  • Kuruluş - Osmanlı Tarihini Yeniden Yazmak. (German: Founding - Rewriting Ottoman History) Verlag Hayykitap, Istanbul 2010, ISBN 978-605-4325-16-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book Review - The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: the Structure of Power ( Memento from February 17, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ), Halil İnalcık Biyografi ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Turkish)
  2. ↑ - doyen of Ottoman history
  3. ↑ a b c www.ankara.edu.tr: Halil İnalcık: Documenting history , Library of the Turkish Ministry of Education, (Turkish)
  4. ↑ The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 ISBN 9781842124420
  5. ↑ Review of The Ottoman Empire, The Classical Age, 1300-1600
  6. ↑ a b c profhalilinalcik.com: İnalcıks website ( memento of the original from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Turkish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / profhalilinalcik.com
  7. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Information about İnalcık ( Memento of September 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Academy of Sciences of Turkey, (Turkish)
personal data
SURNAME İnalcık, Halil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish historian specializing in the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2016
Place of death Ankara