İlber Ortaylı

İlber Ortaylı (born 1947) is a leading Turkish historian, professor of history at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. Since 2004 he has been the head of the Topkapı Museum in Istanbul.

Biography

As the son of a Crimean Tatar family who fled Stalin's persecution and deportation, he was born in a refugee camp in Bregenz, Austria and came to Turkey when he was 2 years old.Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism - [http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN/BelgeGoster.aspx?17A16AE30572D313B6B8DA541AA02A11ED7DB6D9E3FA8EFE "İlber Ortaylı"] Verify source|date=August 2008] Ortaylı attended elementary school and St. George's Austrian High School in İstanbul and then Ankara Atatürk High School. He graduated from Ankara University and completed his postgraduate studies at the Chicago University under Professor Halil İnalcık and at the University of Vienna. He obtained his doctorate at Ankara University in the Faculty of Political Sciences. His doctoral thesis was "Local Administration in the Tanzimat Period" (1978). After his doctorate, he attended to the faculty at the School of Political Sciences of Ankara University. In 1979, he was appointed as associate professor. In 1982, he resigned from his position, protesting the academic policy of the government established after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. After teaching at several universities in Turkey, Europe and Russia, in 1989 he returned to the Ankara University and became professor of history and the head of the section of administrative history.

İlber Ortaylı speaks Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Crimean Tatar, German, Arabic, French, Russian, Persian, and English.

Works

He has published articles on Ottoman and Russian history, particular emphasis on cities and the history of public administration, diplomatic, cultural and intellectual history. In 2001, he collected the Aydın Doğan Foundation Award. He is a member of the Foundation for International Studies, the European-Iran Examining Foundation and the Austrian-Turkish Academy of Sciences. [Austrian-Turkish Forum of Sciences (OTW) - [http://www.otw.co.at/otw/index.php/e/a/85 "Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı"] ] A biographical book on İlber Ortaylı, "Zaman Kaybolmaz: İlber Ortaylı Kitabı," was published by Nilgün Uysal in 2006.

Books

*Tanzimat'tan Sonra Mahalli İdareler (1974)
*Türkiye'de Belediyeciliğin Evrimi (İlhan Tekeli ile birlikte, 1978)
*Türkiye İdare Tarihi (1979)
*Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Alman Nüfuzu (1980)
*İkinci Abdülhamit döneminde Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Alman nüfuzu (1981)
*Gelenekten Geleceğe (1982)
*İmparatorluğun En Uzun Yüzyılı (1983)
*Tanzimat'tan Cumhuriyet'e Yerel Yönetim Geleneği (1985)
*İstanbul'dan Sayfalar (1986)
*Studies on Ottoman Transformation (1994)
*Hukuk ve İdare Adamı Olarak Osmanlı Devletinde Kadı (1994)
*Türkiye İdare Tarihine Giriş (1996)
*Osmanlı Aile Yapısı (2000)
*Tarihin Sınırlarına Yolculuk (2001)
*Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda İktisadi ve Sosyal Değişim (2001)
*Osmanlı Mirasından Cumhuriyet Türkiye'sine (Taha Akyol ile birlikte, 2002)
*Osmanlı Barışı (2004)
*Barış Köprüleri Dünyaya Açılan Türk Okulları (2005)
*Osmanlı’yı Yeniden Keşfetmek (2006)
*Kırk Ambar Sohbetleri (2006)
*Osmanlı’yı Yeniden Keşfetmek-2 (2006)
*Eski Dünya Seyahatnamesi (2007)

References

External links

* [http://www.bilgiyay.com/authordetails.asp?id=61&r=5%2F5%2F2006+9%3A44%3A10+PM Biography] , Istanbul Bilgi University