Cenap Şehabettin
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Cenap Şehabettin (1870 in Manastır, now Macedonia–13 February 1934 in İstanbul) was a Turkish poet,dramatist, and author who wrote under the pen names Ahmet Peyman, Dahhâk-i Mazlum, Dahhâk-i Zalim and Raik Vecdi.
Şehabettin attended the Tophane Feyziye primary school and the Eyüp Military High School. After completing Turkey's Military Medical School (1888), he continued his studies in Paris (1890-1894). Upon returning to Turkey, he worked at the Haydarpaşa Military Hospital, before being transferred to Quarantine Administration. In this capacity, he served in several locations throughouot the Ottoman Empire, includings Mersin, Rhodes and Jeddah. Şehabettin officially retired from military duty during the early days of World War I.
Upon leaving the army, Şehabettin began to lecture on French and the History of Turkish Literature at İstanbul University. He was later forced to give up his post, however, because of his opposition to the "National Struggle," and in later years, he concentrated on his writing. Deemed one of the major poets of the Servet-i Fünûn, his work is heavily influenced by French symbolism.
Şehabettin died in 1934 and was buried in the Bakırköy Cemetery.
Works
Poetry
- Tamat ("Nonsense Words," first poems)
- Cenap Şehabettin, Hayatı ve Eserleri ("Cenap Şehabettin, Life and Works," prepared by S. N. Ergun, 1934)
- Cenab Şahabetin'in Bütün Şiirleri ("Cenap Şehabettin, All Poems," prepared by M. Kaplan İ. Enginün, B. Emil, N. Birinci with A. Uçman, 1984)
Theater
- Yalan ("The Lie," 1911)
- Körebe ("Blind Man’s Bluff," 1914)
- Merdut Aile ("Rejected Family")
- Küçük Beyler ("Small Gentlemen")
- Derse Devam Edelim ("Let’s Continue the Lesson")
Other works
- Hac Yolunda ("On the Way to Pilgrimage," travel literature, 1909)
- Avrupa Mektupları ("Letters from Europe," travel literature, 1919)
- Evrak-ı Eyyam ("Calendar," 1915)
- Nesr-i Harb ve Nesr-i Sulh, Tiryaki Sözleri ("The Prose of War and the Prose of Peace: The Words of Addicts," epigrams, 1918)
- Kadı Burhaneddin ("Kadı Burhaneddin," monograph, 1922)
- Shakespeare' (monograph, 1934)
- İstanbul'da Bir Ramazan ("A Ramadan in İstanbul," 1994).
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