Şinasi
İbrahim Şinasi (born August 5, 1826 in Constantinople , † September 13, 1871 ibid) was an Ottoman author, journalist and translator. He is considered one of the most important authors of the Tanzimatz time .
Life
Şinasi began his career as a civil servant in the Ottoman administration, where he learned Arabic, Persian and French. From 1849 to 1853 he studied on the instructions of Mustafa Reşid Paschas in Paris for five years , where he had contact with French literature and French intellectuals, including becoming a member of the Société asiatique . During his time in Paris he translated various works from French into Turkish. From 1860 he was co-editor of the newspaper Tercüman-i ahvâl (interpreter of the circumstances), in 1862 he founded his own newspaper Tasvir-i Efkâr (enlightenment of thoughts), the first really influential newspaper in the Ottoman Empire. He temporarily joined the Young Ottomans and had to go into exile in Paris in 1865. He entrusted the management of the Tasvir-i Efkâr to his colleague Namık Kemal . Şinasi did not return to Istanbul until shortly before his death.
Şinasi is considered a literary pioneer. He was the first to publish a collection of Turkish proverbs and wrote the first Ottoman play. Before his death he was working on a Turkish dictionary, which he could no longer complete. According to the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Turkey , he was a Freemason .
Works
- Tercume-i Manzume (1859, translation of poems from the French by La Fontaine, Lamartine, Gilbert and Racine)
- Şairin evlenmesi (1860, play)
- Durub-i Emsal-i Osmaniye (1863, collection of proverbs)
- Müntahabat-i eş'ar (1863)
literature
- Beatrix Caner: Turkish literature: classics of modernity , Georg Olms Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3487107112 , page 75-78.
- Mona Baker , Kirsten Malmkjær: Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies , Routledge, 2001, ISBN 0415255171 , page 742f.
- Niyazi Berkes, Feroz Ahmad: The development of secularism in Turkey , Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0415919835 , page 197f.
- Talat Sait Halman: S̲h̲ināsī , in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition , Vol. IX (1997), pp. 443f. Also as an online article (restricted access).
- Ischtiraki (Friedrich Schrader): The intellectual life in Turkey and the current regime , in: The new time: Revue of intellectual and public life , 18th year (1899-1900), 2nd volume (1900), issue 45, Pp. 548–555 Online article at FES Bonn , p. 549ff.
- Âlim Kahraman: Şinâsi , in: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi , Vol. 39 (2010), pp. 166–169 ( online, PDF, 284 KB ) (Turkish).
- Otto Spies : The modern Turkish literature in: Handbuch der Orientalistik: Turkologie , BRILL, 1982, ISBN 9004065555 , S. 342f.
- Balázs Trencsényi, Michal Kopeček: Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945) , Central European University Press, 2006, ISBN 9637326529 , pages 188–193.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of Turkey: Famous Turkish Freemasons (Turkish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Şinasi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | İbrahim Şinasi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ottoman author, journalist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constantinople |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1871 |
| Place of death | Constantinople |