Bekir Çoban-zade

بكير جوبان زاده

27 May 1893 CE · 11 Dhu al-Qa'da 1310 AH† – 13 October 1937 CE · 9 Sha'ban 1356 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Crimean Tatar poet and Turkologist, born at Qarasuvbazar in Crimea in 1893 and educated in Crimea, Istanbul and Budapest. He held the chair of Turkology at the Crimean University and then at Baku State University, wrote some 150 scholarly works on Turkic languages and literature, and was executed at Baku on 13 October 1937 in the Great Purge; he was posthumously rehabilitated.