Kazim Cecen
Kazim Cecen | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 23, 1919 |
| Died | August 8, 1997 |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Awards | Gothilf Hagen Medal (1967) TÜBİTAK Science Award (1976) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Hydraulic Engineering |
| Institutions | Istanbul Technical University
Technische Universität Braunschweig TÜBİTAK |
Kazim Cecen (1919-1997), was a notable Turkish hydraulic engineering academic and historian of science.[1] [2]
Life
Kazim Cecen was born in Elazig in 1919. In 1937, he completed his high school from Izmir Ataturk High School. After that he went to Germany in 1938 to study hydraulic engineering on a scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of National Education, and completed his degree in engineering in 1943 from the Technical University of Berlin. Despite getting enrolled in a doctoral program at the same university, the onset of the Second World War and worsening war condition within Germany forced him to return to Turkey in 1945 without completing his program.
After his return to Turkey, he started teaching at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where he attained an associate professorship in 1949, and full professorship in 1960. In 1959, he attained his PhD from Graz University of Technology in Austria. In 1982, he became the dean of Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering Department at ITU. In 1985, he went to teach at Technical University of Braunschweig. For his research output, he attained the Gothilf Hagen Medal in 1967. Later, he won the Tübitak Science award in 1976 for his study on water intake facilities and groundwater flows in Istanbul.[2]
Works
He was the author of numerous works in Turkish and some in English on the waterways of Istanbul, as well as many entries in the Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Encyclopedia of Islam), a Turkish academic encyclopaedia for Islamic studies published by the TDV.
Some of his books include:
- İstanbul'da Osmanlı Devrinde Su Tesisleri (Istanbul: Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1979).
- Süleymaniye Suyolları (Istanbul: Istanbuk Teknik Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Araştırma Merkezi, 1986).
- Hüseyin Tevfik Paşa ve "Linear Algebra" (Istanbul: Istanbu Teknik Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1988).
- Mimar Sinan ve Kırkçeşme Tesisleri (Istanbul: Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi İSKİ Yayınları, 1988).
- İstanbul'un Vakıf Sularından Üslüdar Suları (Istanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları, 1991).
- Taksim ve Hamidiye Suları (Istanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları, 1992).
- Sinan's Water Supply System in Istanbul (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1996).
- The Longest Roman Water Supply Line (Istanbul: Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi, 1996)[3][4]
- II. Bayezid Suyolu Haritaları (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1997).
- Topkapı Sarayı'na Su Sağlayan İsale Hatları (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1997) (along with Celal Koray).
- İstanbul'un Osmanlı Dönemi Suyolları (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1999) (along with Celal Koray).
He also wrote many articles in Turkish on the TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, especially on the Byzantine and Ottoman waterways of Istanbul. [5]
References
- ^ "Kazim Cecen". Prabook.
- ^ a b "Prof. Dr. Kazım Çeçen Slayt Arşivi". dijitalkoleksiyonlar.kutuphane.itu.edu.tr. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "The Longest Roman Water Supply Line - AbeBooks". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ Crouch, Dora P. (1998-01-01). "The Longest Roman Water Supply Line . By Kâzim Çeçen". American Journal of Archaeology. 102 (1): 212–212. doi:10.2307/506165. ISSN 0002-9114.
- ^ "KAZIM ÇEÇEN". TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 2024-02-09.