Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Pasha

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Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Pascha (* around 1695 in Istanbul , † October 1761 in Kahramanmaraş ) was an Ottoman statesman and diplomat. He served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from October 25, 1755 to April 1, 1756 . The nickname Yirmisekizzade means in German son of the twenty-eight and alludes to the nickname of the father. His nickname Yirmisekiz (twenty-eight) recalls the membership of Mehmed Çelebi in the 28th Battalion of Janissaries .

Life

Mehmed Said's father was of Georgian origin. The father, Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi, was ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in France in 1720/21. Mehmed Said accompanied his father during this mission as his personal secretary. He is said to have enjoyed the French culture and way of life very much and was fluent in French. After his return he founded the Ottoman Empire's first printing company with İbrahim Müteferrika .

Mehmed Said was ambassador to Russia in 1730 and to Sweden and Poland in 1733. In particular, Mehmed Said's time in Sweden has been extensively described in the literature. The trip took place in the " tulip time " at the beginning of the 18th century, when the Ottoman Empire opened up to the west, took up European ideas and carried out reforms. During this time Mehmed Said held the title of Defterdar and member of the Hâcegân-ı Dîvân-ı Hümâyun . He recorded his travel notes in a sefâretnâme and described the country and people in detail. 1734/1735 and 1736 to 1739 he was the scribe of the Silahdar . He was also a member of the Ottoman delegation in the Niyemirav negotiations to avoid war with Russia and chief negotiator of the Ottoman Empire in the peace of Belgrade . Mehmed Said became ambassador to Paris in 1742 and Nişancı on his return . In 1745/46 he stayed in Egypt and worked at the end of the 1740s as defter emini and again as Nişancı and in the beginning of the 1750s as sadâret kethüdâ (personal secretary) of the Ottoman Grand Vizier.

On October 25, 1755, Sultan Osman III appointed him . to the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He remained in office until April 1, 1756. After this time he was governor of the Cretan Chania (1756/57), in 1757/58 governor of Egypt, then governor in Adana (1759/60), Karaman (1760) and Maraş , where he died in 1761.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b İsmail Hâmi Danişmend: Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı . Türkiye Yayınevi, Istanbul 1971, p. 60
  2. ↑ Fatma Muge Göçek: East West Encounters: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century . Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford 1987, ISBN 0-19-504826-1 , pp. 69f. ( Online at Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b c d Mehmed Said Paşa, Yirmisekizzade , İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Türk Diyanet Vakfı, accessed on May 13, 2020
  4. ↑ Erol AF Baykal: The Ottoman Press (1908-1923) . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2019, ISBN 978-90-04-39486-5 , p. 15
  5. ↑ Fatma Müge Göçek (1987), p. 85 ( online at Google Books )
  6. ^ Joachim Östlund: An Ottoman imperial north . In: Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar (Eds.): Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge . Nordic Acamdemic Press, Lund 2020, o. S. ( Online at Google Books )
predecessor Office successor
Sa'deddin Pasha al-Azm Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
October 25, 1755 - April 1, 1756 		Köse Bahir Mustafa Pasha
personal data
SURNAME Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Pasha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Paşa (Turkish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman statesman and grand vizier
DATE OF BIRTH around 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH October 1761
Place of death Kahramanmaraş