Ahmet Haşim, as a pioneer of symbolism, was born in 1887 in Baghdad and passed away in Istanbul at the age of 46 in 1933. His childhood was spent in Baghdad, and at the age of 12, following his mother's death, he moved to Istanbul with his father.
He attended Galatasaray High School as a boarder and was a student of Tevfik Fikret and Ahmet Hikmet Müftüoğlu. After graduating in 1907, he began working at the Reji Administration and continued his studies at the School of Law. He left his law education and was appointed as a French teacher at Izmir Sultanisi. Between 1912 and 1914, he worked as a translator at the Ministry of Finance and spent the years of World War I as a reserve officer in Çanakkale and Izmir.
After the war, he returned to Istanbul and taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts, the War Academy, and the School of Political Science. He also worked at the Düyun-u Umumiye Administration and the Ottoman Bank, and wrote columns for the Akşam and İkdam newspapers. In 1928, he went abroad for treatment of his kidney disease but did not recover. He began writing poetry in his high school years, and his early poems showed the influences of Abdülhak Hamit, Cenap Şahabettin, and Tevfik Fikret. He is a part of Fecr-i Ati, which emerged as a reaction to the Servet-i Fünun movement, and is its most important artist.
