At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Region
- Anatolia
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Life in time
Public life after 1908
Mehmed 'Ata Bey (1856-1919) was an Ottoman scholar, journalist and public official. After the revolution of 1908 he became a member of the Financial Reform Committee, and for one week he was Minister of Finance. 1
Writings
He published many articles in journals and periodicals under the names Mefkhari and 'Ata'. He also produced a literary anthology, which was widely used as a school textbook. 1
His translation of Hammer
His most important undertaking was a Turkish translation of Hammer's History of the Ottoman Empire, based on the French translation of J. J. Hellert. It began to appear in Istanbul in 1329 AH (1911). Of the fifteen volumes that were planned, only a few actually appeared, the last in 1337 AH (1918). 1
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 779
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