Salih Zeki

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Salih Zeki

Salih Zeki , also Ekinci Salih Zeki ( Ottoman صالح زكى) (* 1864 in Constantinople ; † 1921 ibid.), Was an Ottoman mathematician and science historian , author of numerous textbooks on mathematics , physics and astronomy and translator of books by Poincaré and Bertrand into Turkish.

Life

Salih Zeki first attended a university in the Darüşşafaka district of Constantinople. In 1883, at the age of 19, he traveled to Paris and enrolled at the École des Postes et Télégraphes . At the same time, he took courses at the École des Ponts et Chaussées and the Collège de France . As a trained electrical engineer in the postal and telegraph industry , he returned to Constantinople in 1887 and initially worked as an electrical engineer and inspector at the local postal ministry. At the same time he taught natural sciences at various schools and technical schools in Constantinople.

In 1895 appointed director of the Grand Observatory (Ottoman Rasathane-i Amire ), renamed the Kandilli Observatory in 1940 , it was only a five-year interlude for him, as he was in 1900 at the newly founded University of Darülfünun for the establishment of the natural science faculties of mathematics , Physics and astronomy. In 1910 he moved to the Galatasaray grammar school as director , became an advisor in the Ministry of Education in 1912 and returned to his old university in Darülfünun as rector in 1913 . In 1917 he resigned from this post, but continued lecturing at his university until his death.

literature

From Salih Zeki's noteworthy literature, Asar-ı Bakiye (Immortal Works) and Kamus-i Riyaziyat (Encyclopedia of Mathematics) are primarily to be mentioned, although they have only been published incompletely. Asar-ı Bakiye was conceived as a five-volume work on the history of mathematics, but only the first two volumes were published in 1913 on trigonometry and algebra , while the remaining three volumes have been preserved as manuscripts. Of the eleven-volume Kamus-i Riyaziyat , an alphabetically ordered lexicon of mathematical and astronomical definitions, biographies of the relevant scientists and lists of their works, research results and explanations, only the first volume has gone to print. The knowledge of the writings of Islamic mathematicians and astronomers of the Middle Ages recorded in these two volumes, as well as the publication of European historians of science, are based on Salih Zeki's own studies and research.

Nevertheless, he made a significant literary contribution to his more than thirty mathematics textbooks in Turkey, for various types of schools, to knowledge and education. In addition, he was a welcome guest writer on scientific history topics for many Turkish newspapers.

Familiar

In 1901 Salih Zeki married Halide Edib Adıvar , who was twenty years his junior and who later became very famous , with whom he had two sons, Ali Ayetullah and Zeki Hikmetullah. The marriage was not a happy one and when Salih Zeki, who practiced and allowed polygamy , married a second time, Adıvar divorced him in 1910 and moved with their two sons to their grandmother.

Works by Salih Zeki

  • Hikmet-i tabiiye ; Published by Karabet Matbaası, 1894
  • Yeni küçük hendese ; Published by Dersaadet, Konstantinopel 1913
  • Türkiye'de tütün, ziraat, san'at ve ticareti ; Published by Cumhuriyet Matbaası, Konstantinopel 1928
  • Yeni kozmoğrafya ; Published by Matbaa-yı Âmire, Konstantinopel 1915
  • Â̇sâr-ı bâkiye ; Published by Babil, Ankara 2003–2004
  • Kamus-ı riyaziyât: ulum-ı riyaziye ve hey'iyede mevcud ve müstamel kafe-i tabiratı ve bilcümle riyaziyun ve hey'iyunun tercume-i halleriyle asar ve telifatına dair tarifatı cami'dir ; Published by Matbaa-ı Âmire, Konstantinopel 1929

Secondary literature

  • Gövsa, İbrahim Alâettin: Salih Zeki ; Türk Meşhurları Ansiklopedisi, 1946
  • Mücellidoğlu, Ali Çankaya: Yeni Mülkiye Tarihi ve Mülkiyeliler (Mülkiye Şeref Kitabı) , Vol. 1, 1968–1969; Pp. 1076-1080
  • Saraç, Celal: Salih Zeki Bey ; Hayatı ve Eseleri, Ed. Yeşim Işıl Ülman, 2001

proof

  1. ↑ Ekinci, Salih Zeki, 1864-1921. Library of Congress, accessed March 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Feza Günergun: Salih Zeki , Lexicon of important natural scientists, 2007, Volume 3; Elsevier GmbH, Munich; Pp. 244-245; ISBN 3-8274-1883-6
  3. ^ Paul Ginsborg: The guided family: The private in revolution and dictatorship 1900 - 1950. Google Books, accessed on March 23, 2029 .
personal data
SURNAME Salih Zeki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ekinci Salih Zeki; صالح زكى (Ottoman)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman scientist, mathematician and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH 1921
Place of death uncertain: Constantinople