{{Short description|Ottoman journalist and author (1844–1912)}} {{family name hatnote|Ahmet Mithat|||lang=Ottoman Turkish}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand Turkish|topic=bio|Ahmed Midhat|date=August 2025}} {{more footnotes needed|date=October 2022}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Ahmet Mithat | honorific_suffix = Efendi | image = File:Ahmetmithatefendi.jpg | alt = Ahmet Mithat | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = c. 1844 | birth_place = Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | death_date = 28 December 1912 | death_place = İstanbul, Ottoman Empire | other_names = | occupation = Author | known_for = }}
'''Ahmet Mithat''' (c. 1844 – 28 December 1912) was an Ottoman Turkish journalist, author, translator and publisher during the Tanzimat period. In scholarship, he is typically referred to as '''Ahmet Mithat Efendi''' to distinguish him from the contemporary politician Midhat Pasha; Ahmet Mithat took on his second name "Mithat" while working for Midhat Pasha as an official and newspaper editor in the Vilayet of the Danube.
Politically, his orientation was more conservative,{{According to whom|date=July 2023}} compared to writers such as Namık Kemal. He was a prolific writer, more than 250 of his works have survived. From 1878 he published a newspaper entitled ''Tercüman-ı Hakikat'' (Interpreter of Truth). Before that he was one of the contributors of ''Basiret'', a newspaper published between 1870 and 1879.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Murat Cankara|title=Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|date=2015|volume=51|issue=1|page=6 |doi=10.1080/00263206.2014.951038|s2cid=144548203 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2014.951038|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
His editorship and publication of Olga Lebedeva's translations of Russian literature into Turkish served as an introduction of Tolstoy, Lermontov and Pushkin to Turkey's readership.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://ojs.lib.ucl.ac.uk/index.php/Slovo/article/view/1732|title=Olga Lebedeva (Madame Gülnar): A Russian Orientalist and Translator Enchants the Ottomans|first=Türkan|last=Olcay|journal=Slovo|volume=29|number=2 |doi=10.14324/111.0954-6839.065|year=2017|pages=46–50|doi-access=free}}</ref> In addition, he was a patron and teacher to Fatma Aliye, one of the most famous female Ottoman authors. thumb|right|Early portrait
==Bibliography==
=== Novels === * ''Hasan Mellâh yâhud Sır İçinde Esrar'' (1874) * ''Dünyaya İkinci Geliş yâhut İstanbul’da Neler Olmuş'' (1875) * ''Hüseyin Fellah'' (1875) * ''Felâtun Bey ile Râkım Efendi'' (1875) * ''Karı-Koca Masalı'' (1875) * ''Paris'de Bir Türk'' (1876) * ''Çengi'' (1877, oyun) * ''Süleyman Musûlî'' (1877) * ''Yeryüzünde Bir Melek'' (1879) * ''Henüz On Yedi Yaşında'' (1881) * ''Karnaval'' (1881) * ''Amiral Bing'' (1881) * ''Vah!'' (1882) * ''Acâib-i Âlem'' (1882) * ''Dürdâne Hanım'' (1882) * ''Esrâr-ı Cinâyât'' (1884) * ''Cellâd'' (1884) * ''Volter Yirmi Yaşında'' (1884) * ''Hayret'' (1885) * ''Cinli Han'' (1885) * ''Çingene'' (1886) * ''Demir Bey yâhud İnkişâf-ı Esrâr'' (1887) * ''Fennî Bir Roman Yâhud Amerika Doktorları'' (1888) * ''Haydut Montari'' (1888) * ''Arnavutlar-Solyotlar'' (1888) * ''Gürcü Kızı yâhud İntikam'' (1888) * ''Nedâmet mi? Heyhât'' (1889) * ''Rikalda yâhut Amerika'da Vahşet Âlemi'' (1889) * ''Aleksandr Stradella'' (1889) * ''Şeytankaya Tılsımı'' (1889) * ''Müşâhedât'' (1890) * ''Ahmed Metin ve Şîrzât'' (1891) * ''Bir Acîbe-i Saydiyye'' (1894) * ''Taaffüf'' (1895) * ''Gönüllü'' (1896) * ''Eski Mektûblar'' (1897) * ''Mesâil-i Muğlaka'' (1898) * ''Altın Âşıkları'' (1899) * ''Hikmet-i Peder'' (1900) * ''Jön Türkler'' (1910)
=== Stories === * Kıssadan Hisse (1870) * Letâif-i rivayat (Notes: The first Western-style story in Turkish literature.)
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== Bibliography == * {{Cite Q|Q134323048|pages=31-34}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmet Mithat}} Category:1840s births Category:1912 deaths Category:19th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire Category:Novelists from the Ottoman Empire Category:Burials at Fatih Mosque Graveyard, Istanbul