Artin Hindoğlu () was a 19th-century Ottoman etymologist, interpreter, professor, linguist, and writer of the first modern French-Turkish dictionary.

Life

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descent, Artin Hindoğlu was born in

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and lived there until 10 years old. His family were natives of

Kütahya Kütahya (; historically, Cotyaeum or Kotyaion; Ancient Greek, Greek: Κοτύαιον) is a city in western Turkey which lies on the Porsuk River, at 969 metres above sea level. It is the seat of Kütahya Province and Kütahya District. In 19 ...

. He moved to Austria in 1812 and became a professor from 1824-1831. He was then appointed as interpreter for the Emperor of the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...

Works

His first known publication was in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

in 1829, where he published an ''Ottoman Turkish grammar book for the comprehension of ordinary conversation''. The work was later translated into French and published in 1834 under the title "Grammaire théorique et pratique de la langue turke telle qu'elle est parlée à Constantinople"(English: Theoretical and practical grammar of the Turkish language as spoken in Constantinople). In 1830, he wrote a German-Armenian dictionary and had it published in

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at the Armenian Mekhitarist monastery at the

San Lazzaro degli Armeni San Lazzaro degli Armeni (, "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; sometimes called Saint Lazarus Island in English; ) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitarists, an Armenian Catholic congregati ...

. In 1838, Artin Hindoğlu wrote the ''Dictionnaire Abrégé Français-Turc'' (English:French-Turkish Abridged Dictionary), a French-Turkish dictionary which became the first of its kind.

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