Yirminci Asır Türk Edebiyatı Yazarı Dr. Otto Hachtmann’a Göre Mehmed Âkif
Mehmed Âkif: From the Perspective of Otto Hachtmann, an Author of 20th Century Turkish Literature

Summary/Abstract: It is widely known that there are publications in various languages such as German, French, Russian, English, and Italian about the biographies and literary personalities of Turkish poets and authors. One of these publications written in a foreign language is Dr. Otto Hachtmann’s German booklet named Die Türkische Literatur des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (20th Century Turkish Literature). Published in 1916, Leipzig, this work provides information about thirteen Turkish poets and authors. The poets and authors whose biographies, works and literary personalities appear in the book are as follows: Cenab Şehabeddin, Mehmed Rauf, Hüseyin Cahid, Faik Ali, Yakub Kadri, Mehmed Âkif, Celal Sahir, Ali Canib, Ahmed Hikmet, Halide Edib, Aka Gündüz, Mehmed Emin, and Ziya Gökalp. Dr. Hachtmann, who stated that he utilized Nevsâl-i Millî as he was writing the biographies of the authors in question, introduced and made comments about some Turkish poets and authors, as well as their works, and he sometimes made comparisons among the people and the texts he dealt with. Another remarkable feature of this booklet with regard to Turkish literary history is that it contains information about a number of works translated into German from the works of the mentioned literary authors. In this study, the chapter of the aforementioned booklet on Mehmed Âkif has been discussed. After an introductory part with evaluations, Turkish translation of the relevant pages has been presented. In this text, which is considered among the oldest biographies of Mehmed Âkif, there are accurate evaluations as well as mistakes and evaluation errors.

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