Osmanli lisani. [i.e. The language of the Ottomans].

Istanbul: Matbaa-i Hayriye., [AH 1332], 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Modern cloth bdg. Cr. 8vo. 19 x 13 cm). In Ottoman script. 212 p. TBTK 9847. Ahmed Cevad Emre was a famous Turkish linguist and publicist. He had been active in the Young Turkish movement and spent some time as an exile in Paris. He was born in Crete. While he was a student at Military Academy in 1897, he was arrested on the grounds that he was a pro-Constitutional Monarchy and exiled to Fizan. He fled from Tripoli to Europe in 1905 and participated in the political activities of the Young Turks. Between 1915-1919, he first worked as the assistant of F. Giese in Darülfünun and then gave language lessons as an assistant teacher. He went to the Soviet Union during the Armistice Period, worked with Mustafa Suphi there. After the Republic, he participated in language and letter revolution studies and took part in the Alphabet Commission. In 1910, he wrote Lisan-i Osmanî Sarf and Nahiv, who initiated his name to be called as "Gramerci Cevat" [i.e. Cevat the Gramarrian]. Another genre that should be counted among Ahmet Cevat's literary activities are the translations of Odysseia, Iliada, Pinguins Island and Agememnon.