Artin Hindoğlu

Artin Hindoğlu was a 19th-century Ottoman etymologist, interpreter, professor, linguist, and writer of the first modern French-Turkish dictionary.

Life Of Armenian descent, Artin Hindoğlu was born in Istanbul and lived there until 10 years old. He moved to Austria in 1812 and became a professor from 1824-1831. In 1830, he wrote a German-Armenian dictionary and had it published in Venice at the Armenian Mekhitarist monastery at the San Lazzaro degli Armeni. In 1838, Artin Hindoğlu wrote the Dictionnaire Abrégé Français-Turc (English:French-Turkish Abridged Dictionary), a French-Turkish dictionary which became the first of its kind.