- İbrahim Edhem Pasha
İbrahim Edhem Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who held the office of
Grand Vizier in the beginning ofAbdulhamid II 's reign between5 February 1877 and11 January 1878 .He was of Greek origin, and was born in the island
Chios ("Sakız" in Turkish). In his early childhood, during the uprisings and the subsequent clashes on that island in 1822, he had either been sold as a slave as some sources claim or, after having fled toİzmir through his own means, ended up by being adopted by the (later) grand vizierKoca Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha . Hüsrev Pasha was well-known for his love of children and had adopted up to ten children as such, many of them ascending to important positions in society in time.The child, now named İbrahim Ethem, quickly distinguished himself with his intelligence and after having attended schools in
Turkey , he has been dispatched along with a number of his peers, and under the supervision of his father, then grand vizier, and of the sultanMahmud II himself, toParis to pursue his studies under state scholarship. There, he has been a classmate and a friend ofLouis Pasteur . He has thus become Turkey's first mining engineer in the modern sense, and he started his career in this field.He is the father of
Osman Hamdi Bey , a well-known archaeologist and painter, as well the founder of theİstanbul Archaeology Museum and of theİstanbul Academy of Fine Arts . Another son,Halil Ethem Eldem (the surname "Eldem" adopted according to the civil records reform in 1928) took up the archaeology museum after Osman Hamdi Bey's death and has been a deputy for ten years under the newly founded Turkish Republic. Yet another son,İsmail Galib Bey , is considered as the founder ofnumismatics as a scientific discipline in Turkey. Later generations of the family also produced illustrious names. Whereas the architectSedat 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 thetwenties and thethirties inTurkey . A great-grandson,Burak Eldem , currently pursues research on such topics as "".ources
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