Mustafa Celalettin Pasha, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mustafa Celalettin Pasha

Polish writer

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1826

Date of Death: 09-Oct-1876

Profession: writer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Mustafa Celalettin Pasha

  • Mustafa Celalettin Pasha, born as Konstanty Borzecki (April 10, 1826 in Modrzewiec, PiotrkĂłw County – 1876 in NovoselĂ«, KolonjĂ«), was a participant in Polish and Ottoman uprisings, a strategist, and a writer. He was the great-grandfather of Nâzim Hikmet and Oktay Rifat Horozcu. He participated in the Greater Poland Uprising (1848) (Poznan uprising against the Prussians) and the Hungarian revolution in 1848-1849 (the Polish Legion fought in Hungary during the war).
  • After the fall of the uprising, he emigrated to the Ottoman Empire, where he enlisted in the army.
  • There he adopted a new name, Mustafa Celalettin Pasha, and was circumcised and converted to Islam in 1849.
  • He married Saffet Khanum, a daughter of Omer Pasha, a native Serbian who converted to Islam; they had one son, Hasan Enver Pasha. In Turkey he became famous on the battlefield in numerous wars from 1852 on.
  • He was captain of the Turkish General Staff and the chief of the department of cartography, and received the rank of Major General.
  • He is considered one of the "fathers of modern Turkish patriotism." He was killed in the war with Montenegro.
  • His body was placed in a mosque in Albania, where he was buried as a Turkish national hero.

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