Cerrah Mehmed Pasha

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]

Cerrah Mehmed Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office 9 April 1598 – 6 January 1599
Monarch	Mehmed III
Preceded by	Hadım Hasan Pasha
Succeeded by	Damat Ibrahim Pasha
Personal details
Died	January 1604 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Ottoman
Spouse	Gevherhan Sultan ​ (m. 1579)​
Children	Sultanzade Salih Bey

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.

Family

In 1579 he married Gevherhan Sultan, a daughter of Sultan Selim II and Nurbanu Sultan. He was her second husband.^[2][3]

They had at least a son:^[4]

• Sultanzade Salih Bey. Governor of Klis.

See also

• List of Ottoman grand viziers