# Abdulkadir Inan

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Turkish historian (1889–1976)

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 Abdulkadir Inan (centre) with [Zeki Velidi Togan](/source/Zeki_Velidi_Togan) (left) and [Galimyan Tagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galimyan_Tagan&action=edit&redlink=1) (right)

**Abdülkadir İnan** ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Абдулкадир Инан; [Bashkir](/source/Bashkir_language): Әбделҡадир Инан, [romanized](/source/Romanization_of_Bashkir): *Äbdelqadir İnan*; 26 September 1889 – 1 October 1976, [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul)) was a Turkish historian and folklorist of [Bashkir](/source/Bashkirs) background. He was the author of over 350 scientific articles.

## Early life and education

He was born into the Qazböri family of the Ulu Qatay tribe in the village Çigay, close to [Jekaterinburg](/source/Yekaterinburg)[1] He received his primary education in Çigay and in 1905 he entered vocational school in Troick from which he graduated in 1914.[1] Following he was a teacher for secondary education in the [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire), and served in the army of the [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire) during [World War I](/source/World_War_I).[2] From 1908 onwards he wrote articles for the *Vakit* in [Orenburg](/source/Orenburg). Initially focusing on education, he soon expanded into ethnography and folkloric heritage of the Bashkirs.[1]After the end of WWI he stayed in [Moscow](/source/Moscow) and [St. Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg) until 1919, where he worked in libraries.[1] In 1919, he founded a Society for the Research of the Bashqiri heritage and folklore in [Ufa](/source/Ufa).[1] He was involved in the early Soviet government of the Bashkir areas. Due to difficulties with the local Government he left for [Tachkent](/source/Tashkent), where he wrote for the newspaper *Ackoy.*[1] In 1923 left the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) over [Ashgabat](/source/Ashgabat), [Iran](/source/Pahlavi_dynasty), [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan) and [India](/source/India) to Europe where he worked in libraries in [Paris](/source/Paris) and [Berlin](/source/Berlin).[1]

## In Turkey

He finally settled in [Turkey](/source/Turkey) in 1925[2] where he became an assistant to [Mehmed Fuad Köprülü](/source/Mehmet_Fuat_K%C3%B6pr%C3%BCl%C3%BC)[1] and was involved in the development of the [Sun Language Theory](/source/Sun_Language_Theory).[2] Between 1928 and 1932 he was a member of the Scientific Commission in the [Turkish Folkloric Association](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=T%C3%BCrk_Halk_Bilgisi_Derne%C4%9Fi&action=edit&redlink=1) [[tr](https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrk_Halk_Bilgisi_Derne%C4%9Fi)]. In 1933, he was appointed as the head specialist[3][4] of the [Turkish Language Association](/source/Turkish_Language_Association) and in 1935 he assumed as a Professor in [Turkology](/source/Turkology) at the [University of Ankara](/source/Ankara_University).[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:0_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-:0_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-:0_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-:0_1-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-:0_1-6) [***h***](#cite_ref-:0_1-7) [***i***](#cite_ref-:0_1-8) Çagatay, Saadet (1959). ["Abdülkadir Inan: Fünfzig Jahre wissenschaftlichen Wirkens"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/41926645). *Central Asiatic Journal*. **5** (2): 151–162. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0008-9192](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0008-9192). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [41926645](https://www.jstor.org/stable/41926645).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:1_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:1_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:1_2-2) Szurek, Emmanuel (2019). Clayer, Nathalie (ed.). [*Kemalism: Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World*](https://books.google.com/books?id=b-W9wgEACAAJ). [I.B. Tauris](/source/I.B._Tauris). pp. 282–285. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-78813-172-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78813-172-8).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Türk Dil Kurumu (1934). [*Türk Dili Tetkik Cemiyeti Bülteni*](http://archive.org/details/turk-dili-tetkik-cemiyeti-bulteni) (in Turkish). Vol. 8. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu. p. 22.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["TDK Arşiv"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPlpRYmWAAAzUmV.jpg) (JPEG) (in Turkish). Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu. 1936.

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