ZEKİ VELİDİ TOGAN

• Zeki Velidi Togan; Turkish university professor; 1890-1970; Ph.D. Univ. of Vienna.
• Teacher of history, Kazan, Russia 1910, Ufa, Bashkurdistan 1914-15; rep. Moslems of Ufa province for Moslem fraction of Russian Duma 1916-17; member.
  
• Russian Constituent Assembly 1917; Chief of War Dept. Nat. Republic of Bashkurdistan 1917-1919; Commissar for War, Soviet Bashkurdistan 1919-20; Head of Govt, of Bashkurdistan 1920; President of the National Committee Turkestan 1920-1923; left Russia 1923;
  
• Prof. of Turkish History, Univ. of Istanbul 1927-; Dir. Inst. for Islamic Studies, Univ. of Istanbul; Pres. Turkish Oriental Soc. and editor of its review 1963; mem. various orientalist societies and of Finnish Acad.; Hon. Prof. of various German Universities.; Order of the Ferhang (1st Class) (Persia).