Yusuf Isa Halim Explained

Yusuf Isa Halim
Iusuf Isa Halim
Birth Date:1894
Birth Place:Bílbíl, today Ciocârlia, Constanța County, Romania
Death Date:1982
Death Place:Medgidia, Constanța County, Socialist Republic of Romania
Nationality:Tatar
Occupation:Poet, schoolteacher, linguist
Known For:He authored the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.

Yusuf Isa Halim (also transliterated in Romanian as Iusuf Isa Halim; in Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan pronounced as /juˈsuf iˈsa haˈlim/) (1894–1982) was a Dobrujan-born Tatar poet, schoolteacher and linguist known for authoring the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.

Biography

Yusuf Isa was born in 1894 in Bílbíl, today officially known as Ciocârlia, a Nogai village situated in the Tatar countryside west of Mangalia, in Dobruja.He graduated in 1915 from the Medrese of Medğidiye/Medgidia and he served as a schoolteacher in Malşuwa/Abrud, Kavarna, Pazarjik, Bogaz-Kóy (Cernavodă). In 1930 he published in Pazarjik, now Dobrich in Bulgaria, the first Romanian-Turkish dictionary.

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