Mazhar Osman Usman
Mazhar Osman Usman (born 5 May 1884, Soufli - 31 August 1951, Istanbul) was a Turkish psychiatrist and neurologist which founded the first modern psychiatric hospital in Turkey. In 1904, Mazhar Osman graduated from the "Military Medical School" with the rank of captain and became a doctor, and started working as an assistant teacher at the "Gülhane Military Hospital Mental Health Service". In 1909 and 1911, he traveled to Germany twice for educational purposes. In Munich he studied with Alzheimer and Kraepelin, the most important names of modern psychiatry, and in Berlin with Ziehen. He returned to Gülhane, and in 1914 he became the chief physician and director of the "Mental Diseases Müşahedehane" in Haseki. Later, he was appointed as the "Haydarpaşa Military Hospital" Mental and Asabiye Specialization. Mazhar Osman demanded from the state the land where the Reşadiye Barracks, an abandoned barracks in Bakırköy, was located. The process, which started in 1924 with the approval of then President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Prime Minister İsmet İnönü and Minister of Interior Refik Saydam, was completed with the establishment of Bakırköy Mental and Nervous Diseases Hospital on June 15, 1927. Mazhar Osman served as Chief Physician at the hospital for a long