Bursalı Mehmed Tahir Bey (1861–1925) was a Turkish writer, researcher, and soldier. He is known for his biography and
bibliography containing "Ottoman authors", a source book encyclopedia which still continues to be regarded as a basic reference.
Biography
Born in
Bursa in 1861, Mehmet Tahir Bey joined the
Ottoman Army
The military of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun silahlı kuvvetleri) was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire.
Army
The military of the Ottoman Empire can be divided in five main periods. The foundation era covers the ...
to complete his national service. He furthermore was a member of the
Ottoman Parliament
The General Assembly ( tr, Meclis-i Umumî (French romanization: "Medjliss Oumoumi" ) or ''Genel Parlamento''; french: Assemblée Générale) was the first attempt at representative democracy by the imperial government of the Ottoman Empire. Als ...
between 1908 and 1912. He was one of the first members of the
Vatan ve Hürriyet organization in
Salonika
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...
.
Mehmet Tahir Bey died in 1925 in
Istanbul
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References
1861 births
1925 deaths
19th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
20th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
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