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Ali Haydar Mithat
1872–1950
An Ottoman memoirist and biographer with a front-row view of a turbulent era, he is best known for writing about his father, the reformer Midhat Pasha. His books blend personal memory, politics, and the long shadow of exile.
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About the author
Born in Istanbul in 1872, Ali Haydar Mithat was the son of the Ottoman statesman Midhat Pasha. After his father’s downfall and death, he grew up closely connected to one of the empire’s most dramatic political stories, a background that later shaped his writing.
He wrote memoir and biography with a strong historical focus. His best-known work in English is The Life of Midhat Pasha, and library records also connect him with Hatıralarım (1872–1946), a memoir covering much of his own life and times.
Sources agree that he was active in politics as well as writing, but the exact year of his death is reported inconsistently in the material available here. Because of that conflict, it is safest to say that he died in the late 1940s or around 1950.