Hasan Âli Yücel

Hasan Ali Yücel ( born December 17, 1897 in Istanbul, † February 26, 1961 ) was a Turkish politician, author and literary translator. From 1938 to 1946, the teacher and lecturer in philosophy and literature as well as Minister of Education in Turkey. In this capacity, he founded the village institutions and carried out further educational reforms.

Life

Yücel was born into a wealthy home. He was the only child of Ali Riza Bey and mother Neyire Hanim. The family later got into financial difficulties, so that valuables had to be sold. At the age of four years Yücel was enrolled in Lale. Two years later the family moved after Gümüşsuyu. In 1906 he attended the school Mekteb -i Osmani, which he finished in 1911 with good grades. He then attended the Vefa İdadisi that corresponds to today's high school. In 1913, he had to interrupt the schooling and he was drafted into the army because of the First World War. There he went through the ranks second lieutenant and lieutenant. He was released in late 1918. He studied law at the Darülfünun, but later switched to literary studies. During the Turkish War of Independence Yücel worked alongside his studies as a journalist of the newspaper Akşam. After completing his studies he married Refika Hanim and taught from the end of 1922 Turkish and literature at the teacher school in Izmir. A short time later, the couple returned to Istanbul. Yücel worked as a literature teacher at the military school in Kuleli and later as a philosophy teacher at a high school boy. In 1926, he became the father of twins. One of the two was Can Yücel. Another child was born in 1936.

In 1927 he was regional supervisor for the newly created Ministry of Education. He was promoted several times and traveled on behalf of the Ministry in 1930 to Paris and London. Later, he took on the side of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whom he had met in Izmir, a three-month inspection tour of Turkey. In the 1930s, Yücel also published three books on Goethe ( Goethe: Bir Dehanın Romani ), Mevlana ( Mevlana'nın Rubaileri ) and Turkish literature ( Türk Edebiyatı'na Toplu Bakış ).

From 1932 Yücel worked as director of the Ankara Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü, an educational institute in Ankara. In 1934, he joined politics and became MP for Izmir. He was appointed Minister of Education under Celal Bayar end of 1938. On April 17, 1940, the Act for the formation of village institutions was adopted under its auspices. In August 1946, he resigned as Minister of Education and returned to journalism. On February 26, 1961, he died of a heart attack. He was buried in the Cebeci - Asri Cemetery in Ankara.

1997 was proclaimed to his hundredth birthday by UNESCO " Hasan Ali Yücel " year.