Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was born in Istanbul on 23 June 1901. The son of a judge, he followed his father from one posting to another, as far as Kirkuk and Antalya, and lost his mother early. After graduating in literature in Istanbul in 1923, he taught in secondary schools in Erzurum, Konya and Ankara, then at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1939 he obtained the new chair of Turkish literature at the University of Istanbul. A deputy for Maraş for the Republican People's Party until 1946, he returned to the university in 1949, the year of his history of nineteenth-century Turkish literature, and died in Istanbul on 24 January 1962.

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• NovelThe Time Regulation InstituteSaatleri Ayarlama EnstitüsüAhmet Hamdi Tanpınar · 1961Literature