Prof. Dr. İlhan Başgöz’ün Yayımlanmamış Bir Eseri [Türk Folkloruna Giriş] Üzerine

Abstract

Prof Dr. İlhan Başgöz who is found appropriate for “Reward of Superior Care to Turkish Culture” by Culture Ministry of Turkey Republic, borns in 1921 or 1293 in Gemerek/Sivas. He graduates from Ankara University Language and HistoryGeography Faculty in 1945. He becomes one of the firsts that takes Doctor degrees of “Turkish Folklore and Folk Literature” discipline (1949). For a while he works as a literature teacher, and then Mr. Başgöz goes to America in 1960. He works there in different universities and he becomes professor in 1976. Mr. Başgöz who is choosen a honorary member by American Folklore Society mains in America till he becomes retired. After that he works in Bilkent and Yüzüncü Yıl Universities as a guest lecturer. The works of Prof. Dr. İlhan Başgöz like “Karac’oğlan (1978)”, “Folklore Writings (1986)”, “Âşık Ali İzzet Özkan (1979), “Yunus Emre (1990)”, “Twister of Turkish Public (with Andreas Tietze) (1999)”, “Education Predicament of Turkiye an Atatürk (2005)”, “Nasreddin Hodja From Past to Present (2005), “Folk Song (2008)”, “Folk Love Stories (2012)” were published. The book ’Gemerek Nire Bloomington Nire“, which begins with the words of Başgöz “year 2010, ten july and i am 89 years old” and tells the story of life in the form of a documentary, makes its first edition in 2017. In this work, an unpublished work of Mr. Başgöz that he names “Introduction to Turkish Folklore” have presented.

Keywords

• prof. dr. i̇lhan başgöz
• introduction to turkish folklore
• epic
• folk tale
• twister