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Osman Hamdi Bey

1842 - 1910

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Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman Turkish administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first modern archaeologist, and is regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and the museum curator's professions in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts (Turkish: Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi) known today as the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He was also the first mayor of Kadıköy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Osman Hamdi Bey is the 724th most popular painter (down from 688th in 2019), the 642nd most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 621st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Turkish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Osman Hamdi Bey ranks 724 out of 2,023. Before him are Tarsila do Amaral, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Ivana Kobilca, Victor Brauner, Mikhail Larionov, and Andrew Wyeth. After him are Viktor Hartmann, Hans Hartung, Yoshitoshi, François-André Vincent, Esaias van de Velde, and Adolphe Monticelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Osman Hamdi Bey ranks 42. Before him are Gaston, Count of Eu, Vilhelm Thomsen, Hugo Schuchardt, François Coppée, Rikard Nordraak, and Georg Ritter von Schönerer. After him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Charles Cros, Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, Alexandre Ribot, and Catherine Eddowes. Among people deceased in 1910, Osman Hamdi Bey ranks 44. Before him are Andreas Achenbach, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Charles Rolls, Henri-Edmond Cross, and Friedrich Kohlrausch. After him are Maria Konopnicka, Boutros Ghali, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Wilhelm Raabe, Mary Baker Eddy, and Reginald Doherty.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Osman Hamdi Bey ranks 642 out of 1,347. Before him are Ebussuud Efendi (1490), Theodore I (1290), Maximus of Ephesus (310), Petros Markaris (1937), Nikos Zachariadis (1903), and Namık Kemal (1840). After him are Nicander (-250), Prusias II of Bithynia (-300), Diogenes of Oenoanda (200), Macrina the Younger (324), Theodosius the Cenobiarch (424), and Michael Attaleiates (1021).

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Among PAINTERS In Türkiye

Among painters born in Türkiye, Osman Hamdi Bey ranks 6. Before him are Apelles (-370), Theophanes the Greek (1340), Parrhasius (-500), Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901), and Arshile Gorky (1904). After him are Iaia (-100), Jan Rustem (1762), Echion (-350), Halil Pasha (1857), Nevin Çokay (1930), and Hale Asaf (1905).

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