Pechova Ibrahim Efendi ( Turkish: İbrahim Peçevi ; 1574 , Pec - 1650 , Buda ) - Ottoman historian - chronicler [1] . The author of the work, known as the “History of Pechevi” ( Tour. Tarîh-i Peçevî ).
| Pechev Ibrahim Efendi | |
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| tour. İbrahim Peçevi osman. وى إبراهىم افندى | |
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| Birth name | Ibrahim |
| Date of Birth | 1574 |
| Place of Birth | Pecs |
| Date of death | 1650 |
| Place of death | Buda |
| Allegiance |  Ottoman Empire |
| Occupation | historian - chronicler |
Content
Biography
Childhood
Ibrahim was born in the Hungarian city of Pecs (hence his name) in an aristocratic Ottoman family. It is known that his great-grandfather Kara-Dawud, grandfather Jafar-Bek and father (whose name is unknown) were Alaybek (regiment commanders) in Bosnia (because of what their clan was called Alaybek-ogullar). The historian's mother came from the noble Bosnian family Sokollu (Sokolovich). At the time of the birth of Ibrahim, his father already lived in the city of Pecs.
At the age of 14 years, the orphaned Ibrahim is taken to his uncle by his mother Ferkhad Pasha, wali Buda , and over time another relative, the Anatolian balerbey, Lala Mehmed Pasha. The latter eventually led the Ottoman government twice as Great Vizier ( November 19 - November 28, 1595 and August 5, 1604 - June 21, 1606 ) and until his death in 1615 remained the patron saint of Ibrahim Pechev.
Military Service
In 1594 Ibrahim joined the army and took part in military campaigns of the Ottoman army in Hungary . After the death of his patron, Lala Mehmed Pasha, Ibrahim begins his service in the state bureaucracy and acts as a defterer in a number of cities in Rumelia and Anatolia [2] .
The Pechev Story
In 1641 , that is, already in old age, Pechev leaves the service and settles in Buda , where he spends the last years of his life writing his own historical work.
The Pechev History covers the period from 1520 to 1640 and is one of the main sources for studying the Ottoman history of this time [3] . Pechev became the first Ottoman historian to use Western written sources: he knew the Hungarian language and in his work there are references to the writings of the Hungarian historians Caspar Haltai and Istvanffy [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Markus Köhbach: Die osmanische Fassung von Istvánfy's Bericht über die erste Belagerung Wiens durch die Türken 1529 in der Chronik des Ibrahım Peçevi. // Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Günter Düriegl (Redaktion): Wien 1529. Die Erste Türkenbelagerung. Textband zur 62. Sonderausstellung des Museums 1979/1980. - Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Wien / Köln / Graz 1979. - ISBN 3-205-07148-4 . - S. 93ff.
- ↑ Library site XIII century. IBRAHIM EFENDI KEEPERS
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Islam . - T. VIII. - p. 300.
- ↑ İlber Ortaylı. Gelenekten Geleceğe (head of Osmanlılar'ın Tarih Yazıcılığı Üzerine) . - 2008. - p. 43. Archived copy (Inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is June 10, 2014. Archived July 15, 2014.
Sources
- Babinger Franz. Osmanlı tarih yazarları ve eserleri. - Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, 1992.