İlber Ortaylı

İlber Ortaylı ( born May 21, 1947 in Bregenz, Austria ) is a Turkish historian.

Life

Ortaylıs family fled because of expulsions and pogroms against Crimean Tatars from the Soviet Union to Austria and came under in a refugee camp in Bregenz. There İlber Ortaylı was born in 1947. The elementary and middle school he graduated from İstanbul and Ankara. In 1965 he graduated from the Atatürk High School ( Atatürk Lisesi ) in Ankara and in 1968 the Faculty of Political Science and the Faculty of Language, History and Geography at the University of Ankara. Ortaylı then studied at the University of Vienna Slavic and Oriental Studies. His master's thesis he wrote at the University of Chicago under Professor Halil Inalcik. He wrote his dissertation in 1978 on regional administrations in the Ottoman Empire after the Tanzimat period ( Tanzimat sonrası mahalli idareler ). 1979 Ortaylı lecturer with his work on the influence of Germans in the Ottoman Empire ( Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Alman nüfuzu ). Since 1989 he is a professor.

Ortaylı was invited for visiting professorships in France, Great Britain, Germany and other countries.

During the years 1989 and 2002 Ortaylı was head of department for administrative history of the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. In 2002 he moved to Galatasaray Üniversitesi, 2004 Bilkent University. From 2005 to 2012, he was Director of the Topkapi Palace Museum.

İlber Ortaylı is well known for its very comprehensive language skills. He is regarded by his popular science works and television appearances to Turkish history in Germany the best known historians of the country. So now his picture in the wax museum to be found in Eskişehir.