Kemal Reis

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Kemal Reis (also: Kemal Re'is ) (* 1451 in Gallipoli , Ottoman Empire ; † 1511 ) was an Ottoman corsair , admiral and cartographer . He was the uncle of Piri Reis .

Life

Kemal Reis captured a nautical map of the “western region” in the war against the Republic of Venice in the naval battle of Valencia in 1501 , which was supposedly drawn up by Columbus . Several authors believe that the card came into the possession of Kemal Reis through a captured seaman. What is disputed, however, is whether the captive sailor's statement that Columbus was the cartographer is correct.

“... according to Kahle's presumption, Piri Reis is said to have received from a Spanish sailor whom Kemal Reis captured on a captured Spanish ship in 1501. According to Columbus, this prisoner is said to have accompanied him on his first three journeys across the Atlantic. "

"According to tradition, it is said to have been captured in 1501 by Kemal Reis, an uncle of Piri Reis, in the sea battle of Valencia."

His nephew Piri Reis is said to have incorporated cartographic information from this map into the famous Piri Reis map . Kemal Reis died with a fleet of 27 ships in a storm in the Mediterranean .

literature

  • Hans-Albrecht von Burski: Kemal Re'is. A contribution to the history of the Turkish fleet . Bonn 1928.
  • Johann Heinrich Mordtmann : On the life story of Kemal Re'is . In: Communications of the Seminar for Oriental Languages, Second Department: West Asian Studies (Berlin) 32, 1929, pp. 39–49. 231-232.
  • Hans-Joachim Kißling : On the activity of the Kemal-Re'is in the western Mediterranean . In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 62nd vol., Festschrift Herbert Jansky dedicated to his 70th birthday by his friends and students (1969), pp. 153–171.
  • Hans-Joachim Kißling: Kemal Reis . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 2. Munich 1976, p. 395 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Mesenburg: Cartometric investigation and reconstruction of the world map of the Piri Re'is (1513) . In: Cartographica Helvetica , 24, 2001, p. 3
  2. ↑ Fuat Sezgin: The discovery of the American continent by Muslim sailors before Columbus . Excerpt from the History of Arabic Literature, Volume XIII, 2006, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Kemal Reis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kemal Re'is
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman corsair, admiral and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1451
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallipoli (Turkey)
DATE OF DEATH 1511