Bedros Keresteciyan

Bedros Keresteciyan (* 1840 in Istanbul, † February 1907 ) was a polyglot Ottoman linguist, journalist, translator and author of the first etymological dictionary of the Turkish language.

Life

The Armenian origin Bedros Keresteciyan was born in Istanbul in a native of Kayseri family. His father was a lumberjack Krikor what Bedros the last name " Keresteciyan " gave ( son of the woodcutter on Westarmenisch ). Bedros first visited the Armenian Sibyan School of Beşiktaş. He then moved to Izmir, where he led the Armenian Mesrobian School, and later attended the local English school. After his studies in Turkey put Bedros continued his studies in Paris. He moved to England, where he learned Italian. After returning to Turkey, Bedros received in 1880 a management position in a public agency. As a polyglot, who was fluent in 10 languages ​​and specialist in financial and economic matters, taught Bedros Keresteciyan his nephew Berc Keresteciyan in these task areas. He was a journalist with the newspaper Tercüman -i Ahval. He was then until his death in 1907 Head of the Language Department of Finance.

Works

In London in 1891 Bedros Keresteciyans Glanures étymologiques des mots francais: d'origine inconnue ou douteuse, published a book on the origins of French words. In 1900 published Keresteciyan a Turkish- French dictionary. Using his nephew Haig was in 1912 in London posthumously his work Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire de la langue étymologique Turque published, which is considered as the first etymological dictionary of the Turkish language. Also posthumously be Philological and lexicographical study of 6000 words and names Armenian comparisons with 100,000 words, 900 languages ​​, and historical and geographical data was published in 1945, which discussed the word origin of Armenian words.