Hoca Sadeddin

Hoca Sadeddin (born 1536, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]—died Oct. 2, 1599, Constantinople) was a Turkish historian, the author of the renowned Tac üt-tevarih (“Crown of Histories”), which covers the period from the origins of the Ottoman Empire to the end of the reign of Selim I (1520). He was tutor to Prince Murad, governor of Manisa, and followed him to Constantinople when he became sultan as Murad III. Sadeddin was influential in the...