# Ahmet Mithat

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{{Short description|Ottoman journalist and author (1844–1912)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name             = Ahmet Mithat
| honorific_suffix = [Efendi](/source/Efendi)
| image            = File:Ahmetmithatefendi.jpg
| alt              = Ahmet Mithat
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| birth_name       = 
| birth_date       = c. 1844
| birth_place      = [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul), [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)
| death_date       = 28 December 1912
| death_place      = İstanbul, Ottoman Empire
| other_names      = 
| occupation       = Author
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'''Ahmet Mithat''' (c. 1844 – 28 December 1912) was an Ottoman [Turkish](/source/Turkish_people) journalist, author, translator and publisher during the [Tanzimat](/source/Tanzimat) period. In scholarship, he is typically referred to as '''Ahmet Mithat Efendi''' to distinguish him from the contemporary politician [Midhat Pasha](/source/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](/source/Vilayet_of_the_Danube).

Politically, his orientation was more conservative,{{According to whom|date=July 2023}} compared to writers such as [Namık Kemal](/source/Nam%C4%B1k_Kemal). He was a prolific writer, more than 250 of his works have survived. From 1878 he published a newspaper entitled ''[Tercüman-ı Hakikat](/source/Terc%C3%BCman-%C4%B1_Hakikat)'' (Interpreter of Truth). Before that he was one of the contributors of ''[Basiret](/source/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](/source/Olga_Lebedeva)'s translations of Russian literature into Turkish served as an introduction of [Tolstoy](/source/Tolstoy), [Lermontov](/source/Lermontov) and [Pushkin](/source/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](/source/Fatma_Aliye_Topuz), 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.)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== Bibliography ==
* {{Cite Q|Q134323048|pages=31-34}}

{{Turkish literature}}
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Category:19th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
Category:Novelists from the Ottoman Empire
Category:Burials at Fatih Mosque Graveyard, Istanbul

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