Gasim bey Zakir

Gasim bey Zakir
Bornc.1784
Died1857 (aged 7273)
Burial placeMirza Hassan Cemetery
OccupationPoet
Military career
Battles / wars

Gasim bey Ali bey oglu, better known by his pen name Zakir (Azerbaijani: Qasım bəy Zakir; died 1857) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 19th century and one of the founders of the critical realism and satirical genre in Azerbaijani literature. He is considered to be the foremost Azerbaijani poet and satirist of the first half of the 19th century, and the greatest master of 19th-century comic poetry in Azerbaijani.