Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi
Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (c. 1546 – 1604) was an Ottoman poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. His main work is the Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara (Memoirs of the Poets), one of the best known Ottoman tezkires (bibliographical dictionary of poets and poetry).
Life
Hasan was born in year 993 of the
Eski Zagra (July 1602).[2]
He lived the rest of his life as the owner of an arpalik near Rosetta in Egypt on 15 March 1604.[2]
Hasan's brother
Mustafa Âlî neither of the brothers could reach the prestige of their father.[1]
Poetry
His work Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara was the one that made him famous. It was the last of the great bibliographical works on poets of the 16th century. It was structured in three sections. According to
Mustafa ben Abd Allah Hadjidji Khalifa, it surpasses all previous works of its kind both in kindness of language and compactness of information which is embedded in it. It was finished in 1586[3] and dedicated to Hoca Sadeddin Efendi. The tezkire gives information on around 600 poets with specimens of their work. Many manuscripts of it exist.[2]