{{Infobox person | name = Cemil Bilsel | image = | imagesize = | birthname = | birth_date = 1879 | birth_place = Damascus, Ottoman Empire | death_date = 2 September 1949 | death_place = Ankara, Turkey | spouse = }}
Professor '''Cemil Bilsel''' (1879–1949) was a Turkish lawyer, academic, and politician.<ref name=Yücel371>{{citation |last=Yücel|first=M. Serhan|year=2016|title=Ankara Adliye Hukuk Mektebi'nin İlk Yılı|url=http://www.asosjournal.com/Makaleler/1121601001_1152%20M.%20Serhan%20Y%c3%9cCEL.pdf|journal=Akademik Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi|volume=4|issue=26|page=371}}</ref> He was also the former Rector of the University of Istanbul (1934–1943).
==Early life and career== Bilsel was born in 1879 in the city of Damascus, in Ottoman Syria, into a family of Turkish origin. In 1903 he graduated from his studies in law, and between 1908–1914 and 1921–1925, Bilsel entered the State Public Law Course at the Law Department of the Darülfünun’u Istanbul.<ref name=Yücel371/>
In 1925 he became one of the first faculty members of the Law School of Ankara University and served as a Professor of Public Law until 1934. Thereafter, Bilsel became the rector of Istanbul University and remained in this post until his retirement in 1943.<ref name=Yücel372>{{Harvnb|Yücel|2016|loc=372}}.</ref>
He also became a national parliament member and an international representative of Turkey in global diplomatic forums. In 1948 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine by the University of Toulouse.<ref name=Yücel372/>
The "Prof. Dr. Cemil Bilsel Konferans Salonu" is a conference hall named in his honor at Istanbul University.<ref>{{citation |author=Istanbul University|title=Prof. Dr. Cemil Bilsel Konferans Salonu|url=http://fen.istanbul.edu.tr/?page_id=8561|access-date=1 January 2017}}</ref>
==Personal life== In addition to speaking Turkish, he could also speak in the Arabic and French languages.<ref name=Yücel372/>
Bilsel died In 1949, at the age of 70.
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