Reşit Galip

Reşit Galip, around 1931

Reşit Galip (* 1892 or 1893 , on Rhodes ; † March 5, 1934 in Ankara ) was a Turkish doctor and politician. From 1932 he was Minister of Education of Turkey. Since his family took the surname Baydur according to the Turkish naming law of 1934, Reşit Galip is also named under Reşit Galip Baydur .

Life

Galip was born in 1893 on the island of Rhodes, then part of the Ottoman Empire, as the son of the judge Mehmet Galip and his wife Münevver. There he also attended a primary school before the family had to flee from the Italian occupation forces to Izmir and attended a military medicine school there. He then studied human medicine in Istanbul. During the Balkan Wars and World War I he worked as a military doctor on the front lines. In 1917 he successfully completed his studies at Istanbul Üniversitesi .

He worked briefly as an assistant at the faculty of his alma mater , but then traveled to Tavşanlı in Western Anatolia to take part in the Turkish War of Liberation . Towards the end of the war he became a doctor in Mersin . In 1925 he was elected MP for the Aydın Province in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and was also represented in the third and fourth legislative periods.

Political career

Reşit Galip in the 1920s

Galip took an early interest in politics. He published small news papers in Izmir and Istanbul. In Mersin he wrote as a senior editor for a local daily newspaper. During his tenure as a Member of Parliament, he was elected a member of the Independence Courts. In the 1930s he was a founding member of two organizations that went back to an initiative of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk : the Institute for the Turkish Language and the Turkish Historical Society . He later became President of the Institute for the Turkish Language.

From September 19, 1932 to July 13, 1933, he was Turkey's Minister of Education in the country's seventh government. During his tenure, he initiated the comprehensive university reform of 1933. The corresponding University Reform Act (§ 2252) came into force on May 21, 1933. Galip proposed European scientists to fill the newly founded Istanbul University. Through the collaboration of Galip with Albert Malche and Philipp Schwartz , thirty professors persecuted by Nazi Germany or expelled from Germany could be won by August 1933. He also initiated the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. He is also considered to be the author of the student vows, which until 2013 the students made every morning before the start of classes.

On August 13, 1933, Galip resigned from his ministerial office after he had had a boat accident with his wife and three children on the Sea of ​​Marmara near Fenerbahçe. His interim representative was Refik Saydam .

death

Galip contracted tuberculosis during his military service. He died of pneumonia in Ankara on March 5, 1934 and was buried in the Cebeci Asri cemetery.

Honors

Two streets in Ankara and one in Nazilli (Aydın Province) bear the name of Reşit Galip. In addition, two schools in the Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul and one in Çankaya (Ankara) have been named after him.

Web links

Commons : Reşit Galip Bey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ worldcat.org .
2. ↑ ^{a b} biography , biyografi.info, accessed on April 24, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Reşit Galip , Biyografya, accessed on April 24, 2018 (Turkish)
4. ↑ Saadet Tekin: Dr. Reşat Galip ve Universite Reformu . Çağdaş Türkiye Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi Cilt 1 Sayı 2 Yıl 1992, accessed April 24, 2018 (Turkish)
5. ↑ Ali Vicdani Doyum: Alfred Kantorowicz with special reference to his work in İstanbul (A contribution to the history of modern dentistry). Medical dissertation, Würzburg 1985, pp. 42-93.
6. ↑ Afet İnan: Ataturk Hakkında Hatıralar ve Belgeler . Türkiye İş Bankası Yayınları, Istanbul 2012, ISBN 978-9944-88-140-1 , p. 278
7. ↑ Ali Vicdani Doyum: Alfred Kantorowicz with special reference to his work in İstanbul (A contribution to the history of modern dentistry). 1985, p. 47.