Mehmet Fuat Köprülü

Mehmed Fuad Bey

Mehmet Fuat Köprülü until 1934 Köprülüzade Mehmed Fuad (* 1888 in Istanbul ; † June 28, 1966 there ) was a Turkish historian and politician.

He came from the prominent Köprülü family and was therefore also called Köprülüzade . He was known for his contributions to the history of the Ottoman Empire , the history of Anatolia , Turkish folklore, literature and language.

biography

Mehmet Fuat was born in Istanbul and was a descendant of the sister of the well-known Ottoman Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pascha . Mehmet Fuat attended the Mercan University in Istanbul. Then he switched to the “School of Law” ( Mekteb-i Hukuk ), which he left in 1909. In 1912 he was among the founders of the Türk Ocağı (German "Turkish Homeland Association"). After teaching at several schools, he was appointed professor of Turkish literature at Darülfünun (from 1933 Istanbul University ) with the support of Ziya Gökalp . He stayed here until 1939. In 1924 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Education for several months. In the same year he founded the Chair of Turkic Studies at Darülfünun . After 1939 he moved to Ankara, where he taught at the university in the faculties of political science and the arts.

In January 1946 he founded the Democrat Parti with Refik Koraltan , Celâl Bayar and Adnan Menderes and then became Foreign Minister after the parliamentary elections in 1950 and Minister of State from 1955. He is considered to be the leading figure in the participation of the Turkish armed forces in NATO . With the military coup on May 27, 1960, he was arrested like many other members of the Demokrat Parti on the island of Yassıada. He was acquitted after the Yassıada trials . In 1961 he founded a short-lived party called Yeni Demokrat Parti (New Democratic Party). Shortly afterwards he retired from politics. Mehmet Fuat died on June 28, 1966 from the long-term effects of a car accident in Ankara. He is lying next to his father in a family grave in Çemberlitaş cemetery.

Works

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• Yeni Osmanlı Tarih-i Edebiyatı (1916)
• Türk Edebiyatında İlk Mutasavvıflar (1919–1966)
• Nasrettin Hoca (1918–1981)
• Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi (1920)
• Türkiye Tarihi (1923)
• Bugünkü Edebiyat (1924)
• Azeri Edebiyatına Ait Tetkikler (1926)
• Milli Edebiyat Cereyanının İlk Mübeşşirleri ve Divan-ı Türk-i Basit (1928)
• Türk Saz Şairleri Antolojisi (1930–1940, üç cilt)
• Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Hakkında Araştırmalar (1934)
• Anadolu'da Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı'nın Tekamülüne Bir Bakış (1934)
• Osmanlı Devleti'nin Kuruluşu (1959)
• Edebiyat Araştırmaları Külliyatı (1966)
• İslam ve Türk Hukuk Tarihi Araştırmaları ve Vakıf Müessesesi (1983, posthumous)

Awards

• Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit (1954)
•  Italy : Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( Grand Cross ) (January 27, 1955)
• Honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University (1927)
• Honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne (1939)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 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. 
2. ↑ http://www.quirinale.it/qrnw/statico/onorificenze/decorato.asp?id=32203&ono=11
3. ↑ Mehmet Fuat Köprülü: Early Mystics in Turkish Literature Psychology Press, 2006, p. Xxix (foreword)

literature

• Ömer Faruk Akün : Mehmed Fuad Köprülü. In: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi , Vol. 28 (2003), pp. 471-486 ( online , PDF, 14.02 MB) (Turkish).
• Friedrich Karl Kienitz: Köprülü, Mehmed Fuad . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 2. Munich 1976, p. 471 f.

Web links

• Entry into Kim kimdir? (Who is who?)
• SUB Goettingen