Sehi Bey (

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...

: Sehî Bey), (1471?–1548) was an Ottoman poet and bibliographer. He was the first one to compile a ''

tezkire ''Tezkire'' ( ar, تذکرة), from Arabic '' tadhkirah'' meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum", is a form of bibliographical dictionary or bibliographical compendium which flourished in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. T ...

'' (bibliographical dictionary of poets and poetry), a genre which would have many followers until the 19th century. Sehi Bey was born in Edirne. Together with his friend, poet

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(d.1509), he served as katib (secretary) to Princes Şehzade Mahmud, son of

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, and Süleyman, the later would become known as Suleiman the Magnificent. He was in charge of many ''

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s'' located in Edirne and

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, being a chief trustee, in

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'' mütevelli''.
He is mostly remembered for the ''tezkire'', ''Heşt Behişt'' (Eight Springs), which he finished in 1538. 2 other editions would follow until 1548. It narrated the work and life of 241 poets and was very well received and supported by the Ottoman high social circles. It served as basic source for later study of

Ottoman poetry The poetry of the Ottoman Empire, or Ottoman ''Divan'' poetry, is little known outside modern Turkey, which forms the heartland of what was once the Ottoman Empire. It is, however, a rich and ancient poetic tradition that lasted for nearly 700 y ...

. Sehi Bey did work also on his own poetry, collected in a '' diwan''.
He died in 1548 (955 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bey, Sehi Divan poets from the Ottoman Empire People from Edirne Male poets from the Ottoman Empire 1471 births 1548 deaths 15th-century people from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire Turkish-language poets

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