Geoffrey Lewis Lewis

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Geoffrey Lewis Lewis CMG FBA (19 June 1920 - 12 February 2008) was Professor of Turkish language at the University of Oxford.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Honours 4 References 5 Publications

[edit] Education

• University College School
• St. John's College, Oxford (MA 1945, DPhil 1950; James Mew Arabic Scholar, 1947; Honorary Fellow, 2000)

[edit] Career

• Lecturer in Turkish, 1950-54, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, 1954-64, Senior Lecturer in Turkish, 1964-86, Oxford
• Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1961. ^[1]
• Visiting Professor: Robert College, Istanbul, 1959-68; Princeton University, 1970-71, 1974; UCLA, 1975
• British Academy Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Turkey, 1984
• Professor of Turkish, University of Oxford, 1986.

[edit] Honours

• Vice-President, 1972-2003, President, 2003-, Anglo-Turkish Society

• Turkish Government Certificate of Merit, 1973
• FBA 1979
• President, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 1981-83 (award for outstanding contributions for many years to Middle Eastern studies in UK, 2005).
• President, B'nai B'rith Oxford Lodge, 1989
• Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Exceptional Service Plaque, 1991
• Order of Merit (Turkish Republic), 1998
• CMG 1999^[2]
• Gunnar Jarring Lecturer, Stockholm, 2002

[edit] References

• Who's Who (UK)

[edit] Publications

• Teach Yourself Turkish, 1953, 2nd edition 1989
• Modern Turkey, 1955, 4th edition 1974
• (trans., with annotations) Katib Chelebi, The Balance of Truth, 1957
• Plotiniana Arabica, 1959
• (with Barbara Hodge) A Study in Education for International Misunderstanding (Cyprus School History Textbooks), 1966
• Turkish Grammar, 1967, 2nd edition 2000
• (with M. S. Spink) Albucasis on Surgery and Instruments, 1973
• The Book of Dede Korkut, 1974
• The Atatürk I Knew, 1981
• Thickhead and other Turkish Stories, 1988
• Just a Diplomat, 1992
• Turkish Language Reform: a catastrophic success, 1999 (trans. Turkish, 2004)