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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Eyyûb Sabri Efendi — Pelidzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 388 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Üçler Mahallesi ahâlîsinden Osmân Ağa bin Mehmed Ağa’nın mahdûmudur. 1278’de doğdu. Amasya’da mukaddimât-ı fünûnu mekteb ve medresede görüp İstanbul’a gitdi. Ayasofya Medresesi’nde ikâmet etdi.

Ayasofya Câmi-i ders-i âmlarından tahsîl-i ulûm etdiği esnâda dârü’l-mu’allimîne girip mekteb ve medrese tahsîlini ikmâl etdikten sonra şehâdet-nâme alıp 1306’da Bandırma kazâsı Rüşdiye Mektebi’ne mu’allim oldu.

Orada on iki yıl îfâ-yı vazife-i ta’lîm etdikten sonra 1318’de İnegöl kazâsı Mekteb-i Rüşdiye mu’allimliğine nakl edilip orada beş yıl ta’lîm-i sıbyân ile iştigâl ederek 1323 senesi zilka’desinde vefât etdi. Âlim, halûk, me’ârif-âşinâ bir zât idi.

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In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Osman Ağa, son of Mehmed Ağa, of the people of the Üçler quarter. He was born in 1278 [1861-62]. After taking the first introductory lessons in the sciences at school and madrasa in Amasya, he went to Istanbul and stayed at the Hagia Sophia Madrasa.

While pursuing his studies in the public lessons of the Hagia Sophia Mosque, he entered the teachers' school (dârülmuallimîn). After completing his school and madrasa education he received a diploma and in 1306 [1888-89] became a teacher at the Rüşdiye School of the district of Bandırma.

After performing his teaching duties there for twelve years, he was transferred in 1318 [1900-01] to a teaching post at the Rüşdiye School of the district of İnegöl. There he spent five years occupied with the education of children, and he died in Dhu'l-Qa'da 1323 [1905-06]. He was a scholar, gentle in temper, devoted to education and teaching.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mukaddimât-ı fünûn: the first introductory lessons in the sciences
  • ders-i âm: a public lesson given in a mosque, open to everyone
  • dârü'l-mu'allimîn: teachers' school
  • şehâdet-nâme: diploma, certificate of study
  • mekteb-i rüşdiye: a middle-level school above the primary school
  • ta'lîm-i sıbyân: the education of small children
  • halûk: gentle-tempered, of good character
  • me'ârif-âşinâ: fond of and close to education and learning

The Teachers' School and the Rüşdiye

The path described in this entry shows a period in which the madrasa tradition and the new type of school ran side by side. Eyyûb Sabri first attended the mosque lessons at Hagia Sophia and then moved on to a school that trained rüşdiye teachers. The first teachers' school of this kind in the Ottoman Empire was opened on 16 March 1848 in the Fatih district of Istanbul under the name dârülmuallimîn, with Ahmed Cevdet (Pasha) as its first director. In the provinces, teachers' schools continued to be opened from 1882 onward in various provincial centres, Amasya among them. The text does not make clear which school Hüsameddin means; since Eyyûb Sabri was in Istanbul, the school in Istanbul comes first to mind, but this is an inference.

Rüşdiye schools were middle-level schools above the sıbyan (neighbourhood) school. The first rüşdiye was opened in Istanbul in 1847, and the Maârif-i Umûmiyye Regulation of 1869 provided for a boys' rüşdiye in every settlement of more than 500 households, with a course of four years above the sıbyan school. The rüşdiye schools of Bandırma and İnegöl are links of this system in the Marmara region.

The Dates Hüsameddin Gives

The dates in the entry are consistent with one another. A post at Bandırma beginning in 1306 and lasting twelve years brings us to 1318, and the five years that follow at İnegöl bring us to 1323. In the Gregorian calendar this is a teaching career of seventeen years, roughly from 1888-89 to 1905-06. Taking the birth year as 1278 [1861-62], his age at death was about forty-four (a calculation).

No information was found in other sources on Eyyûb Sabri's family, on the epithet "Pelidzâde", or on records of the schools where he served.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 388. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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