Ibrahim Edhem Pasha
Ibrahim Edhem Ottoman Minister of the Interior | |
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| In office 1883–1885 | |
| Ottoman Ambassador at Berlin | |
| In office 1876–1876 | |
| Ottoman Ambassador at Vienna | |
| In office 1879–1882 | |
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| Born | 1819 Chios, Eyalet of the Archipelago, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1893 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
Ibrahim Edhem Pasha (1819–1893) was an
Grand Vizier in the beginning of Abdul Hamid II's reign between 5 February 1877 and 11 January 1878.[1] He resigned from that post after the Ottoman chances on winning the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) had decreased. He furthermore served numerous administrative positions in the Ottoman Empire including minister of foreign affairs in 1856, then ambassador to Berlin in 1876, and to Vienna from 1879 to 1882.[2] He also served as a military engineer and as Minister of Interior from 1883 to 1885.[2] In 1876–1877, he represented the Ottoman Government at the Constantinople Conference
.
Early life
He was born in
Greek Orthodox village[2] on the island of Chios.[3] Strangely, his connection to Chios is not well-documented: his son Osman Hamdi Bey claimed that he was a member of the Skaramanga family, but Edhem Pasha himself tried to efface his Greek connections.[6]
As a young boy in 1822, he was orphaned and captured by Ottoman soldiers during the
Hüsrev Pasha
. Lacking his own children and family, Hüsrev Pasha raised about ten children who had been orphaned or bought as slaves, many of whom ascended to important positions.
The child, now named İbrahim Edhem, quickly distinguished himself with his intelligence and after having attended schools in the Ottoman Empire, he was dispatched along with a number of his peers, and under the supervision of his foster father, then grand vizier, and of the sultan
] He thus became Turkey's first mining engineer in the modern sense, and he started his career in this field.Family and legacy
Ibrahim Edhem Pasha was the father of
Sedat Hakkı Eldem, a cousin, is one of the pillars of the search for modern architectural styles adopted by the Republic of Turkey (called the Republican style in the Turkish context) in its early years and which marks many important buildings dating from the period of the 1920s and the 1930s. A great-grandson, Burak Eldem, is a writer while another, Edhem Eldem, is a renowned historian. More descendants include Erol Eldem, Tiana Eldem, Levent Eldem and Ercan Eldem
, an architect.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-559-52708-1.
Grand vizier Edhem Pasha…the grand vizier, who sent him to Paris, whence he returned a Bachelor of Arts, and one of the best pupils at the Ecole des Mines.
- ^ ISBN 0-520-23335-2.
Ibrahim Edhem. After studying metals engineering in Paris and Vienna Ibrahim Edhem returned to the Ottoman Empire, where he served in several official posts…He served as ambassador to Berlin in 1876 and to Vienna between 1879 and 1882.
- ^ OCLC 223290453.
A Turkish soldier and statesman, born of Greek parents on the island of Chios. In 1831 he was taken to Paris, where he was educated in engineering
- OCLC 184889012.
EDHEM PASHA, the successor of Midhat Pasha as Grand Vizier, was born at Chio, of Greek parents, in 1823. He was saved, when a child, by Turkish soldiers
- ^ OCLC 10173561.
Edhem Pasha was a Greek by birth, pure and unadulterated, having when an infant been stolen from the island of Chios at the time of the great massacre there
- ^ Edhem Eldem, "Greeks and the Greeks in Ottoman History and Turkish Historiography", The Historical Review (Institute for Neohellenic Research) 6:27 (2009) full text Archived 2017-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0-520-23335-2.
(Osman Hamdi)…His father, Ibrahim Edhem, was born in the Greek Orthodox village of Sakiz. After being captured as a prisoner of war during a village revolt, he was sold as a slave to the chief naval officer, Kaptan-I Derya Husrev Pasha, the head of the Ottoman Navy, who would also soon serve as vizier to the sultan.
External links
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- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Chamber of Mining Engineers of Turkey (in English)
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