Education
Lycée Saint-Louis.
Lycée Saint-Louis.
He was commissioned with top-rank governmental duties, including presiding over the first Ottoman parliament in 1877. He also served as Grand Vizier for two brief periods. Vefik also established the first Ottoman theatre and initiated the first Western style theatre plays in Bursa and translated Molière"s major works.
He started his education in 1831 in Constantinople and later went to Paris with his family, where he graduated from Saint Louis College.
When Ahmed Vefik became the ambassador to Tehran, he learned the Persian language. In Tehran, he was the first person to raise the Ottoman Empire"s flag in an embassy.
He declared the embassy soil a Turkish land and started this custom. Ahmed Vefik Pasha was a pioneer of the Pan-Turkism movement.
Ahmed Vefik became the Minister of Education of the Ottoman Empire and Grand Vizier two times.
He built a theatre in Bursa when he was made the governor of the city. In 1860, he became the Ottoman ambassador to France. He wrote the first Turkish Dictionary and is considered to be the first Turkist of Ottoman Turks.