WRITER

İbrahim Şinasi

1826 - 1871

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İbrahim Şinasi Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: ابراهيم شناسى أفندی, romanized: ʾİbrâhîm Şinâsî ʾEfendî; 5 August 1826 – 13 September 1871) was a pioneering Ottoman intellectual, founder of Turkish dramaturgy, author, journalist, translator, playwright, linguist and newspaper editor. He was the innovator of several fields: he wrote one of the earliest examples of an Ottoman play, he encouraged the trend of translating poetry from French into Turkish, he simplified the script used for writing the Ottoman Turkish language, and he was one of the first of the Ottoman writers to write specifically for the broader public. Şinasi used his newspapers, Tercüman-ı Ahvâl and Tasvîr-i Efkâr, to promote the proliferation of European Enlightenment ideals during the Tanzimat period, and he made the education of the literate Ottoman public his personal vocation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of İbrahim Şinasi has received more than 99,919 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). İbrahim Şinasi is the 4,087th most popular writer (up from 4,211th in 2019), the 873rd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 993rd in 2019) and the 104th most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 50.04

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  • 20

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  • 2.01

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  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The wedding of a poet
Drama, Weddings
1981
Şinasi
1954
[Durûb-ı emsâl-i osmaniye]
Turkish Proverbs, Dictionaries, Persian
1870
Durûb-i emsâl-i Osmaniye
Turkish Proverbs
2003
Şair evlenmesi
1972
Durub-i emsâl-i Osmaniye
Turkish Proverbs, Arabic, Persian
1885
Divan
1892
Şair evlenmesi
1972
Divan
1892
Durûb-i emsâl-i Osmaniye
Turkish Proverbs
2003
Şinasi
1954
The wedding of a poet
Drama, Weddings
1981
Durub-i emsal-i 'Osmaniye
Proverbs, Turkish, Turkish Proverbs
1889
The wedding of a poet
Drama, Weddings
1981
Şinasi
1954
Şair evlenmesi
1972
Durub-i emsal-i 'Osmaniye
Proverbs, Turkish, Turkish Proverbs
1889
Durûb-i emsâl-i Osmaniye
Turkish Proverbs
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, İbrahim Şinasi ranks 4,087 out of 7,302. Before him are Maurice Genevoix, Lina Sandell, Alexander Kazbegi, Ana Maria Machado, Karel Píč, and Arkady Averchenko. After him are Saadat Hasan Manto, James Krüss, Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Eric Frank Russell, David Crane, and T. C. Boyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, İbrahim Şinasi ranks 46. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Julia Grant, Adile Sultan, Rahime Perestu Sultan, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. After him are Spotted Elk, Silvestro Lega, August Ahlqvist, Mariano Ignacio Prado, Domenico Morelli, and Johann Köler. Among people deceased in 1871, İbrahim Şinasi ranks 51. Before him are Louis Charles Delescluze, Édouard Lartet, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Mariano Melgarejo, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, and Stand Watie. After him are Charles Antoine Lemaire, Alexander Serov, Castro Alves, Robert Chambers, Paul Kane, and Georg Gottfried Gervinus.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, İbrahim Şinasi ranks 873 out of 1,347. Before him are Erkin Koray (1941), Dionysius of Heraclea (-360), Hakan Fidan (1968), Hasan Şaş (1976), John the Silent (454), and Şemsettin Günaltay (1883). After him are Nihat Kahveci (1979), Ahmed Vefik Pasha (1823), Krikor Zohrab (1861), Alexander of Abonoteichus (105), Neslihan Atagül (1992), and Cemal Süreya (1931).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, İbrahim Şinasi ranks 104. Before him are Tevfik Fikret (1867), Athenaeus Mechanicus (-200), Adile Sultan (1826), Siamanto (1878), Attilâ İlhan (1925), and Ömer Seyfettin (1884). After him are Alexander of Abonoteichus (105), Cemal Süreya (1931), Musa Anter (1920), George Kodinos (1350), Adalet Ağaoğlu (1929), and Theodore Abu Qurrah (750).

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