A LIFE DEDICATED TO TURKOLOGY: PROF. EKREM ČAUŠEVIĆ

Abstract

Ekrem Čaušević, full professor at the Department of Turkology, Hungarology and Judaic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, is one of the most prominent turkologists in the world and a scientist who has greatly contributed to the academic community with valuable insights into the Turkish language and culture. He was born in Brekovica near Bihać in 1952 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After finishing Bihać High School, he started his studies in Oriental Philology (Turkish, Arabic and Persian Language and Literature) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sarajevo, graduating in 1974. He obtained his Masters degree at the same faculty in 1982 and his Ph.D in 1986 with a thesis on the evolution of forms of future tenses in Turkic languages. He has done postdoctoral studies at the universities in Istanbul (1978-1979), Ankara (1986), Vienna, Budapest and Sofia. In the academic years of 1992-1993 and 2000-2001 he was a visiting researcher under the Foundation Alexander von Humboldt scholarship at the University of Göttingen (Germany). From 1984 to 1992 he was the head of the Chair of Turkology and the head of the Department of Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Sarajevo, where he had started a very successful teaching and scientific career.

Keywords

• prof. ekrem čaušević
• turkology