Osmanlı Devleti’nde Modernleşme Girişimlerine Bir Örnek: Lisan Mektebi

Abstract

One of the important attempts of the Ottoman Modernization is the problem of the state offical’s learning foreign languages. In Ottoman State pozitions requiring foreign language knowledge such as interpretership had been left to Phanariot Greeks until 1821, and after this date Muslim were appointed to these positions. Having The Translation Office lost its mission in Ottoman bureucracy as a school that teaches foreign languages after 1860’s, The Language School was opened. In this study foundation, curriculum, and faculty of the Language School, which was opened and closed several times, has been examined based on documentary materials