12 Facts About Hasan Tahsini

Hoxhe Hasan Tahsini or simply Hoxha Tahsim was an Albanian alim, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.

Hasan Tahsini was the first rector of Istanbul University and one of the founders of the Central Committee for Defending Albanian Rights.

Hasan Tahsini was born in 1811 in the village of Ninat, Konispol, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Hasan Tahsini's father Osman Efendi Rushiti was a member of the ulama.

Hasan Tahsini studied in Paris for twelve years after being sent there by Resid Pasha, who was trying to create a Westernized ulama elite.

In 1869 Hasan Tahsini returned in the Ottoman Empire to accompany the body of Fuad Pasha who had died in Nice.

Hasan Tahsini's brother is Ferik Hoxha, his nephew is Xhaferr Hoxha, the father of Bilal Xhaferi.

Hasan Tahsini placed a pigeon underneath a glass bell, emptied the receptacle and the pigeon eventually suffocated proving Hasan Tahsini's theory.

The university was closed for a period because Jamal-al-Din Afghani, another professor influenced by Hasan Tahsini, supported his theories.

Hasan Tahsini wrote the first Turkish language treatise on psychology titled Psychology or the Science of Soul, a work influenced by modernism and the first book whose title contained the word psychology.

Hasan Tahsini wrote the first Turkish-language book on modern astronomy being the first popular science book in Turkish.

Hasan Tahsini was a prominent member of the Central Committee for Defending Albanian Rights established in Istanbul, 1877.