Cerrah Mehmed Pasha

Mehmed
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office
9 April 1598 – 6 January 1599
MonarchMehmed III
Preceded byHadım Hasan Pasha
Succeeded byDamat Ibrahim Pasha
Personal details
DiedJanuary 1604
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
NationalityOttoman
Spouse
(m. 1579)
ChildrenSultanzade Salih Bey

Cerrah Mehmed Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: جراح محمد پاشا; died January 1604, Istanbul) was an Ottoman statesman. He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1598 to 1599.[1]

Mehmed Pasha was the palace surgeon prior to becoming grand vizier, hence his epithet cerrah 'surgeon'. The Istanbul neighborhood of Cerrahpaşa and one of the two medical faculties of Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty [tr] (the other being Istanbul Medical Faculty [tr]), are named after him.

  1. ^ Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) Osmanlı Tarihi III. Cilt, 2. Kısım, XVI. Yüzyıl Ortalarından XVII. Yüzyıl Sonuna kadar), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu (Altıncı Baskı 2011 ISBN 978-975-16-0014-1 ), p. 358