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Kâtip Çelebi

Ottoman bibliographer, historian and geographer

  • Fame52.1
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia3K
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Lived 1609–1657, aged 48Turkey
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    32 languages
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  • Era
    1609–1657
    Aged 48
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Updated 2026-06-21

Kâtip Çelebi or Ḥājjī Khalīfa was a Turkish polymath and author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He compiled a vast universal bibliographic encyclopaedia of books and sciences, the Kaşf az-Zunūn, and wrote many treatises and essays. “A deliberate and impartial historian… of extensive learning”, Franz Babinger hailed him "the greatest encyclopaedist among the Ottomans."

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Historical21.3
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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