Geoffrey Lewis

Lewis, born London 1920, educated University College  School,
London; St John's College, Oxford.

Emeritus Professor of  Turkish, Oxford;
Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College;
Honorary Fellow of St  John's College.
CMG, FBA, Order of Merit of the Turkish Republic (Liyakat  Nisani).

M.A., D.Phil.  Oxford; Honorary Doctor of  University of the Bosphorus and
University of Istanbul.

Visiting  Professor, Robert College Istanbul (1959â��68);
Princeton (1970-71,
1974);  UCLA  (1975); Leverhulme Professor, Turkey (1984).  Gunnar Jarring
Lecturer, Stockholm (2002).

Corresponding Member Turkish Language Society,  Member British-Turkish Mixed
Commission (1975-95), President British Society for  Middle Eastern Studies
(1981-82), President Anglo-Turkish Society  (2003- ).

Principal publications:
Teach Yourself Turkish, 1953, revised 1989;
Plotiniana Arabica, 1959;
The Atatürk  I Knew, 1961;
Turkish Grammar, 1967,  revised 2000;
Modern Turkey, 1974;
Albucasis on Surgery and Instruments,  1974;
The Book of Dede Korkut 1974;
The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic  Success, 1999, Turkish edition
Trajik  Basari, 2003.