SEMAV？ EY？CE (1924-2018): A BYZANTINE AND OTTOMAN ART HISTORIAN

Semavi Eyice was born in Istanbul as a child of sailor family from Amasra. He completed his primary education at Kad？k？y Saint-Louis and Saint Joseph French schools. He attended high school in Galatasaray. He studied in Berlin and Vienna between 1944-1945 for studying archeology. II. He returned to Turkey because of World War II and entered Istanbul Faculty of Literature. He graduated in 1948 and entered the faculty as an assistant. Graduation thesis is Istanbul Minarets. He participated in the excavations of Side between 1950 and 1953 under the direction of Arif Müfid Mansel. He wrote his doctorate on the Byzantine structures in Side (1952). He became an associate professor with his work on Byzantine buildings of the Last Period in Istanbul (1955). In the same years, he did his military service as a reserve officer. In 1964, he became a professor with a thesis titled "Religious and Indigenous Establishments of the First Ottoman Era". He was appointed as the chairman of the Byzantine Art Chair in 1963. Having an international reputation, Eyice gave lectures and lessons abroad. He made excavations and surveys. He wrote more than 1400 articles and encyclopedia articles. He retired in 1990. Died in hospital. On May 30, 2018, he was buried to Fatih Mosque cemetery with a state ceremony