About Mehmet Aga-Oglu
Lived 1896 – 1949 (aged 52–53). Mehmet Aga-Oglu was a Russian and Turkish critic, art historian, curator, editor and university teacher.
Mehmet Aga-Oglu (24 August 1896 – 4 July 1949), was an Azerbaijani-Turkish Islamic art historian.
Born in Erivan, Russian Caucasia (today Armenia), Mehmet earned a doctorate history, philosophy, and Islamic languages from the University of Moscow. By 1921 he was at the University of Istanbul, where he studied Islamic art and Ottoman history. Whilst in Berlin, Aga-Oglu would study under Dr. Ernst Herzfeld in Near Eastern architecture. 1933, he was made chair of the History of Islamic Art at University of Michigan, Aga-Oglu was the first editor of the scholarly journal Ars Islamica, beginning in 1934. He would teach at the University of Michigan until 1938 as a Freer Fellow and Lecturer.
“Six Thousand Years of Persian Art”, The Art News, XXXVIII/30 (April 27, 1940), 7–19.
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Who was Mehmet Aga-Oglu?
Turkish-American art historian (1896–1949)
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Mehmet Aga-Oglu was born on 24 August 1896 in Yerevan.
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Mehmet Aga-Oglu died in 1949 in Detroit.
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Mehmet Aga-Oglu was a critic, art historian, curator, editor and university teacher.
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Mehmet Aga-Oglu was Russian and Turkish.
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