Abstract
Studies on the history of higher education in Turkey show that foreign
scholars contributed at diverse intervals to the educational and research
activities of various institutions. During the Darülfünun period (1900-1933)
scholars were invited from Germany and France to improve the teaching of
natural sciences and also to start research. In 1933 a large group of Germanspeaking scholars were summoned to Istanbul where they played an important
role in the reformation of the University. Although numerous researches were
conducted on scholars who were charged in the Istanbul University during the
1933 reformation, studies regarding scholars who came in 1915 and 1926 are
rather scarce. The present study aims to shed light on the scientific acitivities
that Raymond Hovasse, a French professor or zoology, conducted Turkey.
Invited to the Faculty of Science, Istanbul University within the framework of
the French-Turkish cultural agreement, Hovasse taught zoology and carried on
field research during his 6 year stay from 1926 to 1931. Moreover he founded a
zoological station in Baltalimanı, a village on the Bosphorus. In this station he
researched the migratory behaviour of fish and opened summer courses for
interested people. The station stopped functioning after Hovasse left Turkey in
1931. Although the station did not last for very long and its activities were
mostly limited to Hovasse’s individual efforts, it was important in terms of
being the first of such research institutions in Turkey and constituting an model
for the Institute of Hydrobiology which would be founded in 1951.
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Abstract
Studies on the history of higher education in Turkey show that foreign
scholars contributed at diverse intervals to the educational and research
activities of various institutions. During the Darülfünun period (1900-1933)
scholars were invited from Germany and France to improve the teaching of
natural sciences and also to start research. In 1933 a large group of Germanspeaking scholars were summoned to Istanbul where they played an important
role in the reformation of the University. Although numerous researches were
conducted on scholars who were charged in the Istanbul University during the
1933 reformation, studies regarding scholars who came in 1915 and 1926 are
rather scarce. The present study aims to shed light on the scientific acitivities
that Raymond Hovasse, a French professor or zoology, conducted Turkey.
Invited to the Faculty of Science, Istanbul University within the framework of
the French-Turkish cultural agreement, Hovasse taught zoology and carried on
field research during his 6 year stay from 1926 to 1931. Moreover he founded a
zoological station in Baltalimanı, a village on the Bosphorus. In this station he
researched the migratory behaviour of fish and opened summer courses for
interested people. The station stopped functioning after Hovasse left Turkey in
1931. Although the station did not last for very long and its activities were
mostly limited to Hovasse’s individual efforts, it was important in terms of
being the first of such research institutions in Turkey and constituting an model
for the Institute of Hydrobiology which would be founded in 1951.
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| Primary Language | Turkish |
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| Journal Section | Research Articles |
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| Publication Date | June 1, 2003 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2003 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 |
