Raymond Hovasse'ın Türkiye'deki Bilimsel Çalışmaları  ve Baltalimanı Hayvanat İstasyonu'nun Kuruluşu
Raymond Hovasse'ın Türkiye'deki Bilimsel Çalışmaları  ve Baltalimanı Hayvanat İstasyonu'nun Kuruluşu
Yazar: Kadıoğlu, Sevtap
Dergi: Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları, Vol. 4 No. 2, 2003

Studies on the history of higher education in Turkey show that foreignscholars contributed at diverse intervals to the educational and researchactivities of various institutions. During the Darülfünun period (1900-1933)scholars were invited from Germany and France to improve the teaching ofnatural sciences and also to start research. In 1933 a large group of Germanspeaking scholars were summoned to Istanbul where they played an importantrole in the reformation of the University. Although numerous researches wereconducted on scholars who were charged in the Istanbul University during the1933 reformation, studies regarding scholars who came in 1915 and 1926 arerather scarce. The present study aims to shed light on the scientific acitivitiesthat Raymond Hovasse, a French professor or zoology, conducted Turkey.Invited to the Faculty of Science, Istanbul University within the framework ofthe French-Turkish cultural agreement, Hovasse taught zoology and carried onfield research during his 6 year stay from 1926 to 1931. Moreover he founded azoological station in Baltalimanı, a village on the Bosphorus. In this station heresearched the migratory behaviour of fish and opened summer courses forinterested people. The station stopped functioning after Hovasse left Turkey in1931. Although the station did not last for very long and its activities weremostly limited to Hovasse’s individual efforts, it was important in terms ofbeing the first of such research institutions in Turkey and constituting an modelfor the Institute of Hydrobiology which would be founded in 1951.

Studies on the history of higher education in Turkey show that foreignscholars contributed at diverse intervals to the educational and researchactivities of various institutions. During the Darülfünun period (1900-1933)scholars were invited from Germany and France to improve the teaching ofnatural sciences and also to start research. In 1933 a large group of Germanspeaking scholars were summoned to Istanbul where they played an importantrole in the reformation of the University. Although numerous researches wereconducted on scholars who were charged in the Istanbul University during the1933 reformation, studies regarding scholars who came in 1915 and 1926 arerather scarce. The present study aims to shed light on the scientific acitivitiesthat Raymond Hovasse, a French professor or zoology, conducted Turkey.Invited to the Faculty of Science, Istanbul University within the framework ofthe French-Turkish cultural agreement, Hovasse taught zoology and carried onfield research during his 6 year stay from 1926 to 1931. Moreover he founded azoological station in Baltalimanı, a village on the Bosphorus. In this station heresearched the migratory behaviour of fish and opened summer courses forinterested people. The station stopped functioning after Hovasse left Turkey in1931. Although the station did not last for very long and its activities weremostly limited to Hovasse’s individual efforts, it was important in terms ofbeing the first of such research institutions in Turkey and constituting an modelfor the Institute of Hydrobiology which would be founded in 1951.