Mimar Hayreddin

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Mimar Hayreddin , also Mimar Hajrudin or Mimar Hayruddin , (* in the 15th century ; † in the 16th century in Istanbul ) was an Ottoman architect . He was the builder of the Stari most bridge in the Bosnian city of Mostar .

Life

Hayreddin's exact dates of life are unknown or inconsistent. His father Ustādh Murād is said to have been an architect. Hayreddin was an architect at the Ottoman court and was initially responsible for the maintenance of city walls, bridges and canals. Soon he became chief architect of the court building department and served under the sultans Bayezid II , Selim I and Suleyman I. He is considered a pioneer of classical Ottoman architecture and was a student of the Ottoman architect Sinan .

Works

His construction of the Stari most (Old Bridge of Mostar) in 1566 is certain. It is believed that he was also the architect of the smaller Kriva Ćuprija (Crooked Bridge) , which is adjacent to Stari most, and the Beyazıt Mosque (1501–1506) in Istanbul or was involved in its reconstruction after an earthquake in 1509. He also built the Sultan Bayezid complex in Edirne and is said to have built for the Sultan in Amasya . Ottoman sources also attribute the Pirinç Han caravanserai in Bursa , bridges in Edirne, Osmancik , Geyve and Sarunhan and two mosques in the Galata district of Istanbul to him .

Honors

The Mimar Hayreddin Mosque in Istanbul bears the architect's name.

literature

  • Mimar Hayreddin . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023175-5 , p. 392.
  • Behçet Ünsal: Turkish Islamic architcture in Seldjuk and Ottoman Times 1071–1923 . Tiranti, Istanbul 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jonathan Blum and Sheila S. Blair: Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2009, p. 145
  2. ↑ Mimar Hayreddin , biyografya.com, accessed November 30, 2017
  3. ↑ Ulya Vogt-Göknil : The mosque. Basic forms of sacred architecture . Verlag für Architektur Artemis, Zurich 1978, pp. 128, 130
  4. ↑ a b Mimar Hajrudin on the Structurae website
personal data
SURNAME Mimar Hayreddin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mimar Hajrudin; Mimar Hayruddin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman architect
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century
Place of death Istanbul