Ceyhun Atuf Kansu
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December 7, 1919
Ceyhun Atuf Kansu | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ceyhun Atuf December 7, 1919 |
| Died | March 10, 1978 (aged 58) Ankara, Turkey |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
| Occupations | Pediatrician, poet, author |
| Years active | 1944-1978 |
Ceyhun Atuf Kansu (1919-1978) was a Turkish pediatrician, author and poet.
Ceyhun Atuf was born to Nafi and Müfdalein Istanbul, Ottoman Empire on 7 December 1919. After the death of his mother his father moved to Ankara, the capital of the nationalists. He graduated from the Gazi High School in Ankara in 1938, and the School of Medicine of Istanbul University in 1944. He served in the Numune Hospital in Ankara. During this time, he opened a private clinic for the children in a poor neighborhood of Ankara. Then for eleven years, he served as a pediatrician in the clinic of the Sugar Refinery of Turhal in Tokat Province. After 1959, he returned to Ankara to serve in the Clinics of the Sugar Refineries there. He died on 10 March 1978.[1]
