Abstract:
Biographic studies provide long term perspectives on leadership, learning of leadership attributes and its
development. It is clear that life story of a leader is an important source of information that provides
followers with information about the traits and behaviors of the leader. Thus, the current study seeks to offer
an in-depth look at transformational leader attributes of Hasan Ali Yücel, one of the prominent intellectuals of
the Republican period in history of Turkey, from the perspective of Bass and Avolio (1993). Based on the
public documents (e.g., archival materials, books and journals written by Yücel and other authors),
biographies, photographs and speeches, four general frames of transformational leadership; idealized
influence and charisma, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration
were handled to reveal transformational leader characteristics of Hasan Ali Yücel.
