Aziz Sami
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Native name | عزيز سامي |
Born | 1895 |
Died | 19 July 1984 |
Nationality | Ottoman, Iraqi |
Occupation | writer and translator |
Aziz Sami Bey Abi-Samim (1895 - 19 July 1984) was an Iraqi writer and translator. Born in Kirkuk, moved to Istanbul to continue his studies and taught in schools in Turkey and Iraq. He held several government positions in the Ministries of Finance and Education. After the 14 July Revolution moved to the Institute of Fine Arts as dean there. His books includes general geography of Iraq and many translations from Turkish to Arabic, made him one of the pioneers of scientific translation in twentieth century Iraq and a notable Iraqi Turkmen. He died in Baghdad and was buried there.[1][2]
Life
Aziz Sami Abi-Samim was born in Kirkuk in 1895 into an Arab carpenter family. He moved to Istanbul and studied at the Teachers' House. Then he returned to Iraq and beginning work as schoolteacher from September 1926. Then he moved to the Ministry of Finance in 1933 was a financial inspector (August 1933) and a distinctive to the service, owners and contracts division. He was returned to the Ministry of Education and was appointed Director of the Kirkuk Area Education in October 1937, then moved to Mosul. He worked as Director of Service and Owners at the Ministry of Finance in June 1940.
He retired from the service and was appointed after 14 July Revolution as dean of the Institute of Fine Arts.
Aziz Sami died in Baghdad on July 19, 1984.
Works
- Modern Geography of Iraq, 1929.
- Inspirations, Turkish, 19365.
- Pacific World
- Bride of the Gulf: Kuwait, 1951.
And translated many books from Turkish as second language to Arabic, including Jules Verne and Grigory Spiridonovich Petrov works.
References
- ^ Mir Basri. Aʻlām al-Turkumān wa al-adab al-Turkī fī al-ʻIrāq al-ḥadīth (in Arabic) (1th ed.). London, United Kingdom: Dār al-Warrāq lil-Nashr. pp. 82–83. ISBN 9781900700054.
- ^ Umar Rida Kahhalah (1993). Mu'jam al-Mu'allifin. 2th (1th ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Resalah. p. 377.