Selim III of Ottoman Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Selim III of Ottoman? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Selim III of Ottoman from Historical Figures 1700s and what is the personality traits.
ISTJ (1w9)
Selim III of Ottoman personality type is ISTJ, which is also the dominant type in Turkey (44.7%). It is the second most common type in the Middle East (48.7%).
The ISTJ personality type has been published in several sources, such as "Jung and Meyers" (fourth edition), "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" (MBTI) (third and fourth editions), "Encyclopedia of Personality and Social Psychology" (first and second editions), "The Enneagram: Perspectives and Applications" (first edition), "Personality and Social Psychology" (second edition), and "Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences" (first and second editions). Many of these sources classify the ISTJ personality type as a "dominant" type, meaning that it is one of the more common types among individuals with the same dominant type, such as between ISTJ and ISFJ.
The ISTJ is a characteristic of the judging function of the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, which means that it is categorized as "dominant". The dominant function is described in Type Dynamics as:
The ISTJ has a reputation of being the "stern parent", especially in its adaptation to children.
Selim III was the reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. The Janissaries eventually deposed and imprisoned him, and placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne as Mustafa IV. Selim was subsequently killed by a group of assassins.
