Zeynep Korkmaz (born 5 July 1921) is a Turkish scholar and dialectologist.

Early life and education

Korkmaz was born in

Nevşehir Nevşehir (from the Persian compound ''Now-shahr'' meaning "new city"), formerly Neapolis (Ancient Greek: Νεάπολις) and Muşkara, is a largely modern city and the capital district of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia Region of ...

on 5 July 1921. Her parents are Yusuf Hüsnü Dengi and Şefika Dengi. She has an elder sister and a brother. She received elementary and secondary education in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

. In 1940, she graduated from Izmir Girls' High School. She graduated from

Ankara University Ankara University ( tr, Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the formation of the republic in 1923. The university has 40 vocat ...

with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Turkish language and literature in 1944. She completed her PhD studies at the same department in 1950. Her Ph.D. thesis was concerned with dialects of

Anatolia Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

Career

Following graduation, she became an assistant at the Faculty of Language, History and Geography (DTCF) of Ankara University in 1945. Then she began to work as an assistant at the department of Turkish language and literature of the same university in 1948. She went to

Hamburg University The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

for post-doctoral studies. She worked as a visiting scholar there from 1954 to 1955 and studied Old Turkish Language with A. von Gabain, O. Pritsak and O. Von Essen. She became associate professor in 1957 and professor in 1964. She retired in 1990.

Membership

Korkmaz is a member of the Turkish Culture Research Institute; Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC); Ottoman-Pre-Ottoman Research Committee; Societas Uralo-Altaica; İLESAM (Professional Union of Turkish Science and Literature Academicians, Ankara).

Works

Korkmaz has 16 books and more than 250 articles about the Turkish language. Some of her books are given below: (1963). ''Nevşehir ve Yöresi Ağızları'' (Turkish = Dialects of Nevşehir and nearby area), DTCF: Ankara (1973). ''Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türk Dili'' (Turkish= Turkish Language in the Republic Era), DTCF:Ankara On her 60th birthday in 1982, a book was published by her pupils with the title of ''Prof. Dr. Zeynep Korkmaz'ın Hayatı ve Eserleri (Prof. Dr. Zeynep Korkmaz's life and works)''.

Personal life

Korkmaz married Mehmet Korkmaz, who died in 1984. She has two children. Korkmaz turned 100 in July 2021.Türkçenin asırlık çınarı Nevşehirli Zeynep Korkmaz 100 yaşında
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