ARCHITECT KEMALEDDIN: A LIFE AT ONE OF HISTORY'S TURNING POINTS (1870-1927) |
1870-1891
The wailability Information and documentation of the first years of Kemaleddin’s life is very limited. All that is known is that he started at the Ibrahim Aga primary school near his home in 1875 and that he learnt French and Arabic at the special school to which his father was appointed opened for children of army officers in Crete in 1881.
When he came back to İstanbul he continued his education at the Numune-i Terakki school, which provided a model education. He graduated from this school where the most well known teachers of the era gave lessons such as the mathematician Mehmed Nadir or the astronomer Huseyin Efendi. In 1887, he was accepted into the second class of the Hendese-i Mulkiye. He was awarded the Medal for Industry while he was still a student. He graduated in 1891.