Diplomats of the Ottoman Empire - Ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire, Ahmed Resmi Efendi, Agha Petros, List of Turkish Diplomats (Paperback)

Chapters: Ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire, Ahmed Resmi Efendi, Agha Petros, List of Turkish Diplomats, Huseyin Hilmi Pasha, Abdulhak Hamid Tarhan, Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Yirmisekiz Mehmed Celebi, Cenebaz Osman Efendi, Hayrullah Fi ek, Giritli Ali Aziz Efendi, Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha, Khalil Bey, Mehmed Said Efendi, Muhib Efendi, Mahmud Mukhtar Pasha, Mustapha Aga. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ahmed Resmi Efendi (English, "Ahmed Efendi of Resmo"), also called Ahmed bin brahim Giridi ("Ahmed the son of brahim the Cretan"), was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat and author of the late 18th century. In international relations terms, his most important - and unfortunate - task was to act as the chief of the Ottoman delegation during the negotiations and the signature of the Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca. In the literary domain, he is remembered for various works among which his sefaretname recounting his embassies in Berlin and Vienna occupy a prominent place. He was Turkey's first ever ambassador in Berlin. He was born in Resmo (Rethymno) in 1694. According to Muhammed Muradi, the source for the little that is known concerning his early life, Ahmed Resmi arrived in stanbul towards his forties, in 1734. Most sources credit him with expertise in the calligraphic and epistolary arts. Rising through the Ottoman bureaucracy, he allied himself with a circle of reformers, who transformed diplomatic relations of the Ottomans with Europe in the 18th century and established some of the first privately-endowed public libraries of Istanbul. When his father-in-law and first patron Tavukcuba Mustafa, a diplomat and one of the prominent figures in grand vizier Koca Mehmed Ragp Pasha's entourage, died in 1749, Ahmed Resmi began writing his first work, the bibliographical com...http: //booksllc.net/?id=7005871