Kazim Cecen (August 23, 1919August 8, 1997), was a Turkish hydraulic engineering academic and historian of science.

Life

Kazim Cecen was born in Elazig in 1919. In 1937, he completed his high school at İzmir Atatürk High School. After that he went to Germany in 1938 to study hydraulic engineering on a scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of National Education, and he completed his degree in engineering in 1943 from the

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in Berlin (now

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). Despite enrolling in a doctoral program at the same university, the onset of the Second World War and worsening war conditions within Germany forced him to return to Turkey in 1945 without completing his program. After his return to Turkey, he started teaching at

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(ITU), where he attained an associate professorship in 1949, and full professorship in 1960. In 1959, he attained his PhD from

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in Austria. In 1982, he became the dean of Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering Department at ITU. In 1985, he went to teach at

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. For his research output, he was awarded the Gotthilf Hagen Medal in 1967. in 1976, he won the Tübitak Science award for his study on water intake facilities and groundwater flows in Istanbul.

Works

Cecen was the author of numerous works in Turkish and some in English on the waterways of Istanbul, as well as many entries in the Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı

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(Encyclopedia of Islam), a Turkish academic encyclopaedia for Islamic studies published by the TDV. His books include: * ''İstanbul'da Osmanlı Devrinde Su Tesisleri'' (Istanbul: Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1979). * ''Süleymaniye Suyolları'' (Istanbul: Istanbuk Teknik Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Araştırma Merkezi, 1986). * ''Hüseyin Tevfik Paşa ve "Linear Algebra"'' (Istanbul: Istanbu Teknik Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1988). * ''Mimar Sinan ve Kırkçeşme Tesisleri'' (Istanbul: Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi İSKİ Yayınları, 1988). * ''İstanbul'un Vakıf Sularından Üslüdar Suları'' (Istanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları, 1991). * ''Taksim ve Hamidiye Suları'' (Istanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları, 1992). * ''Sinan's Water Supply System in Istanbul'' (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1996). * ''The Longest Roman Water Supply Line'' (Istanbul: Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi, 1996) * ''II. Bayezid Suyolu Haritaları'' (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1997). * ''Topkapı Sarayı'na Su Sağlayan İsale Hatları'' (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1997) (along with Celal Koray). * ''İstanbul'un Osmanlı Dönemi Suyolları'' (Istanbul: İSKİ Yayınları, 1999) (along with Celal Koray). He also wrote many articles in Turkish on the ''TDV Encyclopedia of Islam'', especially on the Byzantine and Ottoman waterways of Istanbul.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cecen, Kazim Recipients of TÜBİTAK Science Award Turkish scientists 20th-century Turkish engineers Technische Universität Berlin alumni 1919 births 1997 deaths People from Elazığ Turkish engineering academics