John Freely

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John Freely (born 1926 in Brooklyn , New York City , † April 20, 2017 ) was an American physicist , historian , university professor and author .

Life

Freely grew up in Brooklyn and Ireland . He left school at 17 and enlisted in the United States Navy . During the last two years of World War II he fought in a commando unit in Burma and the Republic of China . Because of the scholarship under the GI Bill , he could at a traditional Catholic College, Iona College in New Rochelle in the state of New York to study.

After Freely's doctorate in physics at New York University in 1960 , he went to Oxford University in England to study the history of European science in the Middle Ages with Alistair Cameron Crombie, among others .

In 1960, Freely began teaching physics and history of science at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi (Bosporus University) in Istanbul , which had been spun off from Robert College in 1971 . After various stays at other universities, he finally returned to Boğaziçi University in 1993 as a professor.

Freely is the author of more than forty books on the history of Turkey and Istanbul, as well as travel and architecture guides to many sites in the Eastern Mediterranean. In recent years he has written several books on the development of science and the topic of scientific exchange between the Islamic world and the West. He was the father of Maureen Freely , a writer and translator of Turkish literature into English.

Publications

  • with Hilary Sumner-Boyd: Strolling through Istanbul: A Guide to the City . 1972. (New edition Tauris Parke Paperbacks, New York City, USA 2009)
  • Stamboul Sketches , 1974.
  • The Companion Guide to Turkey . Boydell Press, 1984.
  • The Western Shores of Turkey: Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts . John Murray Publications. 1988. (2nd edition: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, New York City, USA 2004, ISBN 1-85043-618-5 )
  • with Augusto Romano Burelli : Sinan : Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age . Thames & Hudson, London 1992.
  • The Redhouse Guide to the Black Sea Coast of Turkey , with photographs by Anthony E. Baker. Redhouse Press, 1996.
  • The Redhouse Guide to the Aegean Coast of Turkey , with photographs by Anthony E. Baker. Redhouse Press, 1996.
  • Istanbul: The Imperial City . Penguin Books, London 1998, ISBN 0-14-024461-1 .
  • A History of Robert College: The American College for Girls and the Boğaziçi University. 2 volumes, YKY, Istanbul 2000, ISBN 975-08-0238-1 .
  • Jem Sultan: The adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe . Harpercollins, 2004.
  • with Ahmet S. Çakmak: Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul . Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II: Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire . Tauris Parke Paperbacks, New York City 2009, ISBN 978-1-59020-248-7 .
  • Children of Achilles: The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the Days of Troy . Tauris, London 2009.
  • Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World . 2009.
    • Plato in Baghdad: How Ancient Knowledge Came Back to Europe . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-94766-3 .
  • A History of Ottoman Architecture . WIT-Press, Ashurst (Southampton), England 2011, ISBN 978-1-84564-506-9 .
  • Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe . Overlook Duckworth, New York City / London 2012, ISBN 978-1-590206072 .
    • Aristotle at Oxford: How the Dark Ages founded modern science . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-94854-7 .
  • Celestial Revolutionary .
  • Back to Ithaca: on Odysseus' footsteps through the Mediterranean (original title: A travel guide to Homer from the English by Jörg Fündling ), Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8053-4987-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 'Memory of Istanbul', author and professor John Freely passes away at 90. In: Daily Sabah . April 20, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Raindrops for Theory. John Freely followed scientific thinking from the early Middle Ages to Galileo and Newton . In: FAZ . November 15, 2012, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Freely, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist, historian, university professor, and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2017