''Servet-i Fünun'' ("''Wealth of Knowledge''", french: Servetifunoun) was an
avant-garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...
journal published in the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
and later in
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
.
Halit Ziya (Uşaklıgil) and the other writers of the "New Literature" ( ota, Edebiyat-ı Cedide, script=Latn) movement published it to inform their readers about European, particularly French, cultural and intellectual movements. In operation from 1891 until 1944, it was for its first year a supplement of the newspaper ''
Servet'', but became an independent publication from 1892.
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Its offices were in Stamboul, the central part of ]Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
. Today the region is known as the Fatih district.
Evangelia Balta and Ayșe Kavak state that during the late Ottoman Empire it was " e most influential literary journal" which had "a significant role in the intellectual life" of the country.[ Other titles of the magazine were ''Uyanış'', ''Resimli Uyaniş'', and ''Terwet-i fünūn''.
]
History
In 1890 20-year old Ahmed İhsan, who later took the family name Tokgöz, translated articles into Turkish for ''Servet'', an Ottoman Turkish newspaper owned and operated by Ottoman Greek Demetrius Nicolaides
Demetrius Nicolaides ( el, Δημήτριος Νικολαΐδης ''Dimitrios Nikolaidis''; french: Démétrius Nicolaïdes;c. 1843Strauss, "A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire," p. 29 (PDF p. 31) - 3 July 1915Balta and Kavak, p56), also kno ...
. Ahmed İhsan suggested having a supplement each week. ''Servet'' began running ''Servet-i Fünûn'' from 1891 to 1892 with the approval of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
The sultans of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, it ...
Abdulhamid II
Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...
after Nicolaides, in late 1890, applied to create a supplement about industry and science. Nicolaides decided to sell the supplement to İhsan as he believed not enough copies were being purchased.[ Balta and Kavak wrote that relatively little scholarship on ''Servet-i Fünun'' describes Nicolaides' initial role and that "The overwhelming majority of scholars ascribe the periodical to Ahmed İhsan".]
Tevfik Fikret
Tevfik Fikret ( ota, توفیق فكرت) was the pseudonym of Mehmed Tevfik (December 24, 1867 – August 19, 1915), an Ottoman-Turkish educator and poet, who is considered the founder of the modern school of Turkish poetry.
Biography
Fam ...
became its editor in 1896. Another prominent contributor was the poet Süleyman Nazif
Süleyman Nazif ( ota, سلیمان نظیف; 29 January 1870 – 4 January 1927) was a Turkish poet and a prominent member of the CUP. He mastered Arabic, Persian, and French languages and worked as a civil servant during the reign of ...
.
Major rival of ''Servet-i Fünun'' was ''Malumat
''Malumat'' ( Ottoman Turkish: ''The Information''), also known as ''Musavver Malumat'' ( Ottoman Turkish: ''The Pictorial Information''), was an Ottoman weekly literary and political magazine which was published in Istanbul in the period 1894 ...
'', a weekly magazine published by Mehmet Tahir, a supporter of Sultan Abdulhamit.
Contents
Halit Ziya's romance novel '' Aşk-ı Memnu'' was serialized in the journal in 1899 and 1900. The novel has since been adapted into several television series, the best known of which is the internationally popular 2008–10 series of the same name.
Legacy
Multiple PhD theses and academic articles were dedicated to this publication.[
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References
External links
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Servet-i Fünun dergisi
' - Boğaziçi University's Department of Turkish Language and Literature
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