Osmanlı tarihçisi Profesör Cornell Fleischer hayatını kaybetti

The death of Cornell H. Fleischer, who was continuing his studies in the Department of History at the University of Chicago’s Center for Near Eastern Studies, was announced on the university’s website.

According to ArtDog news, the statement read: “It is with deep sadness that we announce the unexpected death of Cornell Fleischer, Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Legal Period Studies in the Departments of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations and History at his home in Chicago.”

“RETURNED THE FIELD”

His book “Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: Historian Mustafa Âli” (1986) received wide recognition and is largely attributed to archival sources, according to a commemorative statement from the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. “He is credited with revolutionizing the field by bringing sensitive interpretation of manuscripts and narrative sources to a field dominated by attention.”

Fleischer received a MacArthur grant in 1988, after the publication of the book “Intellectual and bureaucratic historian Mustafa Ali in the Ottoman Empire”.

Fleischer was known for his outstanding knowledge of Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, Arabic and Persian, as well as for the depth of cultural context he brought to the study of the Ottoman past.

“HE HAS LOVED CAIRO AND ISTANBUL ALL HIS LIFE”

The press release also mentioned Fleischer’s life story and included the following statements:

“Born in 1950, the son of an American diplomat, Cornell lived in many parts of the world in his youth and as a graduate student. He spent years in Cairo, Baghdad, and Istanbul. He had a lifelong love of Cairo and Istanbul, and After one year at Brown University, Cornell transferred at Princeton as a “critical language” undergraduate majoring in Arabic, graduating with a PhD from Princeton’s Department of Near Eastern Studies in 1982. Fleisher, who has worked at Ohio State University and Washington University in St. Louis, joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1993 .”

Source: Haber Global