WRITER

Namık Kemal

1840 - 1888

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Namık Kemal (Ottoman Turkish: نامق كمال, romanized: Nâmıḳ Kemâl, pronounced [ˈnaː.mɯk ce.ˈmal]; Turkish: Namık Kemal; 21 December 1840 – 2 December 1888) was an Ottoman writer, poet, democrat, intellectual, reformer, journalist, playwright, and political activist who was influential in the formation of the Young Ottomans and their struggle for governmental reform in the Ottoman Empire during the late Tanzimat period, which would lead to the First Constitutional Era in the Empire in 1876. Kemal was particularly significant for championing the notions of freedom and fatherland in his numerous plays and poems, and his works would have a powerful impact on the establishment of and future reform movements in Turkey, as well as other former Ottoman territories. He is often regarded as being instrumental in redefining Western concepts like natural rights and constitutional government. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Namık Kemal is the 1,848th most popular writer (down from 1,586th in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 557th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Turkish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Namık Kemal ranks 1,848 out of 7,302. Before him are Alonso de Ercilla, Joseph Joubert, I. L. Peretz, Simon Dach, Giovannino Guareschi, and Marcel Schwob. After him are Hans F. K. Günther, Erle Stanley Gardner, Sarah Moore Grimké, R. M. Ballantyne, Miklós Nyiszli, and John Green.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Namık Kemal ranks 35. Before him are Manuel de Arriaga, Sisowath of Cambodia, Kuroda Kiyotaka, William, Prince of Orange, Friedrich Kohlrausch, and Emin Pasha. After him are Shibusawa Eiichi, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, August Leskien, José Manuel Balmaceda, and Marie Bracquemond. Among people deceased in 1888, Namık Kemal ranks 29. Before him are Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Mary Jane Kelly, Ludvig Nobel, Edward Lear, Mary Ann Nichols, and Annie Chapman. After him are Princess Helena of Nassau, Charles Cros, Elizabeth Stride, Dora d'Istria, George Robert Waterhouse, and Catherine Eddowes.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Namık Kemal ranks 641 out of 1,347. Before him are Alexios II of Trebizond (1282), Ebussuud Efendi (1490), Theodore I (1290), Maximus of Ephesus (310), Petros Markaris (1937), and Nikos Zachariadis (1903). After him are Osman Hamdi Bey (1842), Nicander (-250), Prusias II of Bithynia (-300), Diogenes of Oenoanda (200), Macrina the Younger (324), and Theodosius the Cenobiarch (424).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Namık Kemal ranks 51. Before him are Eustathius of Thessalonica (1101), Menander Protector (550), Ibn Kemal (1468), Yaşar Kemal (1923), Theodore I (1290), and Petros Markaris (1937). After him are Nicander (-250), Alexander Polyhistor (-100), Methodius of Olympus (260), Bion of Smyrna (-300), Pir Sultan Abdal (1480), and Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889).

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