Ibrahim Shinasi

İbrahim Şinasi was born on 5 August 1826 in Istanbul; his father, an artillery captain, died during a war against Russia, and his mother raised him. Sent by the state to study in Paris in 1849, he joined the Société asiatique there. Back in Istanbul, he founded a newspaper with Agâh Efendi, the Tercüman-ı Ahvâl, then alone, in 1862, the Tasvir-i Efkâr. He translated French poets, including La Fontaine, Lamartine and Racine, and compiled a collection of Turkish proverbs. Having left again for Paris in 1865, he later returned to Istanbul and died there on 13 September 1871.

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• TheatreThe Wedding of a PoetŞair EvlenmesiIbrahim Shinasi · 1860Literature