Ibrâhîm Peçevî

Statue of Ibrahim Pechevi in Pecs

Ibrâhîm Peçevî (also Peçuyî , * 1574 ; † ~ 1649) came from a Bosnian fiefdom family and lived in Pécs (Hungary) . He is one of the most important Ottoman historiographers of the 17th century.

life and work

In his own words, he collected everything that had to do with history throughout his life. He also toured battlefields and spoke to Ottoman veterans. His chronicle Ta'rîh-i Peçevî contains, among other things, translations from the writings of the Hungarian authors Heltai Gáspár (around 1520–1574) and Istvánfy Miklós (Latinized: Nicolaus Isthvanfi, around 1538–1615). As one of the first Ottoman historians, he also used Christian, that is, Hungarian (written in Latin ) sources, which he shortened considerably. It is astonishing that he nevertheless made the translations so textually correct that the pronouns “we” and “our”, as in the Latin original, are exclusively related to Christians (e.g. Ta'rîh p. 147, line 3: [. ..] cûn bizüm ^c askerimiz [...] , dt. "[...] as our soldiers [...]", that means the defenders of Vienna)!

This two-volume chronicle was first printed in Istanbul around 1865 . In it he writes about the battle of Mohács (1526) , the first siege of the Turks (1529), but also about printing and gunpowder in the West as well as the vita of Saint Gerhard (Gellért) von Csanád . According to Markus Köhbach, of the manuscripts on which the printing is based, Es'ad Efendi No. 2094 in the Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi (library) is the most complete.

"[...] as we have seen most of the chronicles in Turkish [...], fell (us) finally one: How did the unbelievers in their own chronicles the pleasing campaigns of the late Sultan ( di Sultan Suleiman written down)?"

literature

• Franz Babinger : The historians of the Ottomans and their works . Leipzig 1927
• K. Schwarz: Peçevî, Ibrahim . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 3. Munich 1979, p. 420 f.
• Historical Museum of the City of Vienna (ed.), Günter Düriegl (editor): Vienna 1529. The first Turkish siege. Text volume for the 62nd special exhibition of the museum 1979/1980, Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1979, ISBN 3-205-07148-4 .

See also

• List of Ottoman chroniclers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Markus Köhbach: The Ottoman version of Istvánfy's report on the first siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1529 in the chronicle of Ibrahım Peçevi. In: Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, Günter Düriegl (editor): Vienna 1529. The first Turkish siege. Text volume for the 62nd special exhibition of the museum 1979/1980, Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1979, ISBN 3-205-07148-4 , p. 93ff.