Ebüzziya Tevfik

Born at Sultanahmet, Istanbul, on 17 February 1849, the son of a finance-ministry scribe, he lost his father at eight, entered the same office, and educated himself with private tutors. Through Namık Kemal and İbrahim Şinasi he joined the Young Ottomans, and after Şinasi's death the Tasvîr-i Efkâr press passed into his sole custody. His part in the Vatan yahut Silistre affair of 1873 brought exile to Rhodes, where, barred from publishing under his own name, he began signing "Ebüzziya" — "father of Ziya", after his son. ¹²

From his Matbaa-i Ebüzziya press (1882) he issued the journal Mecmua-i Ebüzziya, almanacs, a Turkish dictionary, and the first Western-style anthology of Ottoman literature, and practised Kufic calligraphy, including the band of the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque. Exiled to Konya in 1900, he returned at the 1908 revolution and sat in parliament for Antalya. He died at Istanbul on 27 January 1913, the day he last issued Tasvir-i Efkâr, and was buried at Bakırköy Cemetery. ¹²

His affiliation is recorded as unknown. The Turkish infobox leaves its religion field blank, the English article is silent, and Wikidata gives only the generic value Islam, naming no school; his mosque calligraphy is his craft and his journalism his work, and neither attests a personal school. ¹²³

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