İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu was a Turkish academic, journalist and intellectual. Until 1933 he was a faculty member at Darulfunün, later Istanbul University, of which he was the first rector following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Following his dismissal from the university in 1933 he published and edited a cultural magazine entitled Yeni Adam and served as a deputy at the Turkish Parliament from Republican People's Party for two terms from 1942 to 1950. He is known as the father of the educational thought and practice of the Republic of Turkey.
