Poet and writer (b. 23 June 1901, Sehzadebasi / Istanbul - d. 24 January 1962). He used the pen name Mizrakçioglu. After he completed his primary education in Vefa, Kerkük, Antalya, he studied at the Veterinary School for a year. In 1923, he graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, which he had entered in 1919. His graduation thesis was "Seyhî'nin Hüsrev ve Sîrin'I" (Hüsrev and Sirin of Seyhi). Among his teachers were Cenap Sahabettin, Yahya Kemal, Necip Asim and Riza Tevfik. He worked as a literature teacher at high schools in Erzurum, Konya, Ankara, Ankara Gazi Education Institute and Istanbul Kadiköy High School, as aesthetics and mythology teacher at the Fine Arts Academy and as a literature teacher at Üsküdar American College (1923-39). He was appointed as professor to the Turkish Language and Literature Department at the Literature Faculty of Ýstanbul University (1939). He was elected parliamentary deputy for Maras in 1942. After 1946, he worked as an inspector for the Ministry of National Education and as a teacher. He returned to his previous job as professor at the Faculty of Literature, Department of Turkish Literature (1949). He continued as professor of the Recent Turkish Literature Department until his death. He died of a heart attack. His tomb is near the tomb of his teacher and friend Yahya Kemal in Rumelihisari. On his tomb is written "Ne içindeyim zamanin / Ne de büsbütün disinda" (Neither I am in time, nor out of the time).
His first poems were published in the journals Dergâh, Millî Mecmua, Hayat, Görüs beginning in 1921. His poems he wrote after 1932 were published in the journals Varlik, Agaç, Görüs, Olus, Ülkü, Istanbul etc. He compiled most of his poems in a book one year before his death. He was known more for his novels and research of literature history than his poems. In his stories and novels in which he gave great importance to psychological analyses, he wrote about people who were always searching and the chaos between westernization and traditional life. He satirized his time through irony in his work Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (Institute of Setting Watches).
Cause of Death: Heart attack.
His first poems were published in the journals Dergâh, Millî Mecmua, Hayat, Görüs beginning in 1921. His poems he wrote after 1932 were published in the journals Varlik, Agaç, Görüs, Olus, Ülkü, Istanbul etc. He compiled most of his poems in a book one year before his death. He was known more for his novels and research of literature history than his poems. In his stories and novels in which he gave great importance to psychological analyses, he wrote about people who were always searching and the chaos between westernization and traditional life. He satirized his time through irony in his work Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (Institute of Setting Watches).
Cause of Death: Heart attack.
Poet and writer (b. 23 June 1901, Sehzadebasi / Istanbul - d. 24 January 1962). He used the pen name Mizrakçioglu. After he completed his primary education in Vefa, Kerkük, Antalya, he studied at the Veterinary School for a year. In 1923, he graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, which he had entered in 1919. His graduation thesis was "Seyhî'nin Hüsrev ve Sîrin'I" (Hüsrev and Sirin of Seyhi). Among his teachers were Cenap Sahabettin, Yahya Kemal, Necip Asim and Riza Tevfik. He worked as a literature teacher at high schools in Erzurum, Konya, Ankara, Ankara Gazi Education Institute and Istanbul Kadiköy High School, as aesthetics and mythology teacher at the Fine Arts Academy and as a literature teacher at Üsküdar American College (1923-39). He was appointed as professor to the Turkish Language and Literature Department at the Literature Faculty of Ýstanbul University (1939). He was elected parliamentary deputy for Maras in 1942. After 1946, he worked as an inspector for the Ministry of National Education and as a teacher. He returned to his previous job as professor at the Faculty of Literature, Department of Turkish Literature (1949). He continued as professor of the Recent Turkish Literature Department until his death. He died of a heart attack. His tomb is near the tomb of his teacher and friend Yahya Kemal in Rumelihisari. On his tomb is written "Ne içindeyim zamanin / Ne de büsbütün disinda" (Neither I am in time, nor out of the time).
His first poems were published in the journals Dergâh, Millî Mecmua, Hayat, Görüs beginning in 1921. His poems he wrote after 1932 were published in the journals Varlik, Agaç, Görüs, Olus, Ülkü, Istanbul etc. He compiled most of his poems in a book one year before his death. He was known more for his novels and research of literature history than his poems. In his stories and novels in which he gave great importance to psychological analyses, he wrote about people who were always searching and the chaos between westernization and traditional life. He satirized his time through irony in his work Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (Institute of Setting Watches).
Cause of Death: Heart attack.
His first poems were published in the journals Dergâh, Millî Mecmua, Hayat, Görüs beginning in 1921. His poems he wrote after 1932 were published in the journals Varlik, Agaç, Görüs, Olus, Ülkü, Istanbul etc. He compiled most of his poems in a book one year before his death. He was known more for his novels and research of literature history than his poems. In his stories and novels in which he gave great importance to psychological analyses, he wrote about people who were always searching and the chaos between westernization and traditional life. He satirized his time through irony in his work Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (Institute of Setting Watches).
Cause of Death: Heart attack.
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