İbrahim Peçevi

Ibraaheem Peçevî or Peçuyî (* 1574, † ~ 1649) came from a Bosnian feudal lords family and lived in Pécs (Hungary). He is one of the important Ottoman historians of the 17th century.

Life and work

Throughout his life he collected his own words, everything that had to do with history. He also visited battlefields and spoke with Ottoman veterans. His chronicle Ta'rîh -i Peçevî, contains, among other translations from the writings of Hungarian authors Heltai Gáspár (about 1520-1574 ) and Miklós Istvánfy ( Latinized: Nicolaus Isthvanfi, about 1538-1615 ). He used one of the first Ottoman historian and Christian, that is Hungarian ( written in Latin) sources, which, however, he shortened greatly. It is amazing that he still so text correctly performed the translations that the pronouns "we" and "our" are related exclusively to the Christians, as in the original Latin (eg Ta'rîh page 147, line 3: [ ... ] Cun bizüm caskerimiz [ ... ], dt " [ ... ] as our soldiers [ ... ] " so are the defenders of Vienna meant )!

This two-volume chronicle was first printed in 1865 in Istanbul. He writes about the battle of Mohacs ( 1526), the first Turkish siege of Vienna (1529 ), but also on printers beings and gunpowder in the West, as well as the Life of Saint Gerhard ( Gellért ) of Csanád. According to Mark Köhbach From the pressure underlying manuscripts is the Es'ad Efendi No. 2094 in the Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi (library ) the most complete.

See

List Ottoman chroniclers