Abdulkadir Inan (centre)) with Zeki Velidi Togan (left) and Galimyan Tagan (right)
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Abdülkadir İnan (Russian: Абдулкадир Инан; Bashkir: Әбделҡадир Инан, translit. Äbdelqadir İnan; 26 September 1889 – 1 October 1976, Istanbul) was a Turkish historian and folklorist of Bashkir background. He was the author of over 350 scientific articles.

Early life and education

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He was born into the Qazböri family of the Ulu Qatay tribe in the village Çigay, close to Jekaterinburg[1] He received his primary education in Çigay and in 1905 he entered vocational school in Troick from which he graduated in 1914.[1] Following he was a teacher for secondary education in the Russian Empire, and served in the army of the Russian Empire during World War I.[2] From 1908 onwards he wrote articles for the Vakit in Orenburg. Initially focusing on education, he soon expanded into ethnography and folkloric heritage of the Bashkirs.[1]After the end of WWI he stayed in Moscow and St. Petersburg until 1919, where he worked in libraries.[1] In 1919, he founded a Society for the Research of the Bashqiri heritage and folklore in Ufa.[1] He was involved in the early Soviet government of the Bashkir areas. Due to difficulties with the local Government he left for Tachkent, where he wrote for the newspaper Ackoy.[1] In 1923 left the Soviet Union over Ashgabat, Iran, Afghanistan and India to Europe where he worked in libraries in Paris and Berlin.[1]

In Turkey

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He finally settled in Turkey in 1925[2] where he became an assistant to Mehmed Fuad Köprülü[1] and was involved in the development of the Sun Language Theory.[2] Between 1928 and 1932 he was a member of the Scientific Commission in the Turkish Folkloric Association [tr]. In 1933, he was appointed as the head specialist[3][4] of the Turkish Language Association and in 1935 he assumed as a Professor in Turkology at the University of Ankara.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Çagatay, Saadet (1959). "Abdülkadir Inan: Fünfzig Jahre wissenschaftlichen Wirkens". Central Asiatic Journal. 5 (2): 151–162. ISSN 0008-9192. JSTOR 41926645 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ a b c Szurek, Emmanuel (2019). Clayer, Nathalie (ed.). Kemalism: Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World. I.B. Tauris. pp. 282–285. ISBN 978-1-78813-172-8.
  3. ^ Türk Dil Kurumu (1934). Türk Dili Tetkik Cemiyeti Bülteni (in Turkish). Vol. 8. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu. p. 22.
  4. ^ "TDK Arşiv" (JPEG) (in Turkish). Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu. 1936.
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