Osman Hamdi Bey, Turkish archaeologist and painter (born 1842)

Osman Hamdi Bey

Ottoman administrator, intellectual and artist (1842–1910)

Osman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman Turkish administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first modern archaeologist, and is regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and the museum curator's professions in…