Bedros Keresteciyan

Bedros Keresteciyan (1840 – 27 February 1909) was an Ottoman linguist, journalist, translator, and writer of the first etymology dictionary of the Turkish language.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Life

Of Armenian descent, Bedros Keresteciyan was born in Constantinople to a family from Kayseri.[7] His father Krikor was a lumberjack thus giving the last name "Keresteciyan" meaning lumberjack.[7] Bedros attended the Besiktas Armenian Sibyan school. He then moved to Izmir where he attended the local Mesrobian Armenian School and later attended the local English school. After his studies in Turkey, Bedros continued his studies abroad in Paris.[7] He moved to England where he studied and learned Italian.[7] When returning to Turkey, Bedros became the manager of the External Communications office until 1880. A hyperpolyglot in 10 languages and a specialist in financial and economic affairs, Bedros Keresteciyan taught his nephew Berc Keresteciyan in these fields. He became the head journalist of the Tercuman-i Ahval newspaper.[4] He then became manager of the Translations Office of the Finance Ministry until his death in 1907.[8]

Work

In London in 1891, Bedros Keresteciyan's Glanures étymologiques des mots francais: d'origine inconnue ou douteuse, a book on French word origins was published. In 1900, Keresteciyan published a Turkish-French dictionary.[9] With the help of his nephew Haig, his Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire etymologique de la langue Turque was published posthumously in 1912 in London and is considered the first etymology dictionary of the Turkish language. Also published posthumously in 1945 was his Philological and lexicographical study of 6000 words and names Armenian comparisons with 100,000 words, 900 languages, and historical and geographical data which examined the word origins of the Armenian language.

References

  1. ↑ Dabağyan, Levon Panos (2002). Osmanlı'da şer hareketleri ve II. Abdülhamid Hân (1. basım. ed.). İstanbul: IQ Kültürsanat Yayıncılık. ISBN 9789756618332.
  2. ↑ "Özür dilediğim Ermeniler ve 2008 için son birkaç sözcük". BirGun (in Turkish). Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Armenian-Turkish dictionary published in Turkey". PanArmenian. May 5, 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  4. 1 2 Silvart Malhasyan, "İstanbul'da 1922 Yılında Kurulan Türk-Ermeni Teali Cemiyeti ve Faaliyetleri", İ.Ü. Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü, İstanbul 2005.
  5. ↑ Akyol, Taha (2009). Ortak acı, 1915: Türkler ve Ermeniler (in Turkish). Doǧan Kitap. p. 24.
  6. ↑ Hülagü, Metin (2007). Hoşgörü toplumunda Ermeniler: Osmanlı toplumunda birlikte yaşama sanatı: Türk Ermeni ilişkileri örneği (2. basım. ed.). [Kayseri]: Erciyes Üniversitesi. p. 407. ISBN 9789944976107.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Mehmet Metin Hülagü, Mehmed Zeki Pakalın. (2008). Sicill-i Osmanî zeyli : son devir Osmanlı meşhurları ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu. ISBN 9789751620552.
  8. ↑ GÜRBÜZ, Sevgi Zübeyde (17 January 2011). "Five Noteworthy Armenians". Turkish Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  9. ↑ Akdoğu, Onur (2004). Bir başkaldırı öyküsü, Zeybekler: tarihi, ezgileri, dansları. İzmir: Onur Akdoğu. ISBN 9789759506643.
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