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.
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.