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Ismail Gaspıralı

1851-03-08 – 1914-09-11

Portrait of Ismail Gaspıralı
Ісмаїл ГаспринськийCredit: Unknown author

Life & Legacy

Ismail bey Gasprinsky (also written as Gaspirali and Gasprinski; Crimean Tatar: اسماعیل بك غصپرالى, İsmail bey Gaspıralı; Russian: Исмаи́л Гаспри́нский Ismail Gasprinskii; 20 March [O.S. 8 March] 1851 – 24 September [O.S. 11 September] 1914) was a Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher and Pan-Turkist politician who inspired the Jadidist movement in Central Asia. He was one of the first Muslim intellectuals in the Russian Empire, who realized the need for education and cultural reform and modernization of the Turkic and Islamic communities. His last name comes from the town of Gaspra in Crimea.

Occupation & Career

politician, publisher, journalist, writer, intellectual, teacher, pedagogue, journal editor

Education

University of Paris; Simferopol gymnasium №1; Voronezh Cadet Corps; Second Moscow Cadet Corps

Faith & Community

Islam; Sunni Islam

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Order of the Lion and the Sun; Order of the Medjidie; Commander of the Order of the Lion and the Sun; Officer of the Order of the Lion and the Sun; 4th class, Order of the Medjidie; Order of noble Bukhara

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

4th class, Order of the Medjidie · Commander of the Order of the Lion and the Sun · Officer of the Order of the Lion and the Sun · Order of noble Bukhara · Order of the Lion and the Sun · Order of the Medjidie

Church

Islam · Sunni Islam

Employer

Terciman · Zincirli Madrasa

Education & Institutions

Second Moscow Cadet Corps · Simferopol gymnasium №1 · University of Paris · Voronezh Cadet Corps

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Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q335495 — wikidata View source

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