Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Amazon.com books , Washington, 2020
I'm not a historian.
I never had such a claim either. But I love
history very much.
The book you hold illuminates a period. The
person who inspired this book is my late professor Dr. Oktay Güvemli. He always
asked me to study accounting history. He always talked about the paucity of
research on the history of accounting in Turkey. Thanks to him, I first heard
about the existence of “Hellenic Trade School”. Rest in peace. He has always been a
pole star for me.
When it is the case of trade school in Turkey,
Marmara University comes always the first. I am greatly honored to be a member
of this community. This School has largely trained traders, businessmen and
accountants for the Ottoman Empire first then the newborn Republic of Turkey.
I believe that every university and even the
faculties within that university have a mission.
Marmara University, which started education in
a house behind the Istanbul Girls' High School in Cağaloğlu under the name of
“Hamidiye Ticaret Mekteb-i Âlisi” on the 16th of January 1883, under the
Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture Forestry and Maadin, became an Academy of
Economic and Commercial Sciences in 1959. With the arrangements made in 1982,
it has taken its place among the most distinguished universities of our country
under the name of “Marmara University”.
The Faculty of Economics and Administrative
Sciences, one of the most distinguished faculties of this distinguished university was divided into three distinguished faculties (Faculties of
Business - Economics and Political Sciences) over time. I always believed that
the mission of the Faculty of Business Administration, which is my faculty, is
to raise a “Good Trader”.
Trade-in our country has been a long time
business. The increase in trade, especially after the Industrial Revolution,
has made some countries and the ports of these countries more active than ever
before. Istanbul Karaköy port was one of the few ports in the world at that
time and even earlier. The fact that our non-Muslim citizens who live in
Istanbul know a lot of languages, are prone to trade as a family, has caused
Istanbul to be an attractive port for foreigners.
Increasing trade after the Industrial
Revolution brought along the need for “trained manpower”. It was in this period
that, before Marmara University, there was an illuminated “School of Commerce”
in our territory, which could compete with the world, containing many different
courses, and even guided other schools of the period: “Elen Commercial School”
Commerce education in Turkey is always
"Scholar in Hamidiye Trade Mektebi" is said to begin with that.
However, this is not true. Hellenic School of Commerce was an educational
institution that was the face of these lands. Life was very short. It was
closed with a sad story.
My only goal when writing this book was to
explore the dusty history of this important institution and introduce the
lessons taught. In the later parts of the book, I tried to explain to the
readers how the education of trade started in the West.
As I was writing the book, I started learning
Greek to solve some texts. I translated it without difficulty because some of
the course contents are in French.
I hope I was able to leave a mark on history.