Abdülhak Hâmit Tarhan

Abdülhak Hâmid was born on 2 January 1852 in Istanbul, into an aristocratic family; his father, Hayrullah Efendi, was a historian and ambassador. As a child he studied for a time at a school in Paris, then followed his father to Tehran. Having entered the diplomatic service, he was embassy secretary in Paris in 1876, then served in London and Brussels, among other places. A member of the Ottoman Senate, then a deputy for Istanbul under the Republic, he was nicknamed “the greatest poet”. He died in Istanbul in April 1937, on the 12th (on the 13th according to turkedebiyati.org).

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• PoetrySahraAbdülhak Hâmit Tarhan · 1879not translated into EnglishLiterature