Ioannis Filimon ( Greek Ιωάννης Φιλήμων ; 1798 , Constantinople - 1874 , Athens ) - Greek historian and publisher of the 19th century, participant and historiographer of the Greek Revolution [1] .
| Ioannis Filimon | |
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| Ιωάννης Φιλήμων | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Constantinople |
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| Place of death | Athens |
| A country | Kingdom of Greece |
| Scientific field | Story |
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Biography
Filimon was born in 1798, in Constantinople. He was a member of the secret Greek revolutionary organization Filiki Eteria . With the beginning of the Greek Revolution in 1821, a wave of pogroms and massacres of the Greek Orthodox population swept across the Ottoman Empire . Philemon wrote: “the chosen creation of the hands of the Most High, Constantinople , turned into a terrible meat grinder of people” [1] . Philemon himself managed to escape the massacre and climbed onto the Peloponnese . Here he joined the circle of Dmitry Ipsilanti , whose family had been friends for many years, and became his secretary [1] . Historiography in particular notes his participation in the campaign of Ipsilanti to liberate Middle Greece in 1829, the last year of the war [1] . After the last and victorious battle for the Greek weapons at Peter , Ipsilanti instructed Philemon, as an expert on the Turkish language, to negotiate with the defeated Turks [1] . After that, Philemon was present at the final surrender of the forces of Ahmed Bey [1] . With the arrival in Greece of John of Kapodistrias , Philemon published in 1831 the friendly Kapodistrias newspaper Mirny (Ο Ειρηνικός) [2] ,
After the War of Independence, Philemon wrote a number of historical books. Ioannis Filimon is known as one of the main historiographers of the Greek Revolution and is an important source for today's historians. This is facilitated by his direct participation in Eteria and the war, personal acquaintance with many of its participants, as well as the fact that when writing his works, Philemon had at his disposal the archive of the Ipsilanti family [1] . The main works of Filimon are “Historical essay on the Greek revolution” and “Historical essay on Filiki Eteria”.
Ioannis Philemon died in Athens in 1874.
Works
- Ιωάννης Φιλήμων. Δοκίμιον ιστορικόν περί της Eλληνικής Eπαναστάσεως . - Αθήναι: Τύποις Π. Σούτσα και Α. Κτενά, 1859-1861.
- Δοκίμιον ιστορικόν περί της Ελληνικής Επαναστάσεως Τ.Α '/ παρά Ιωάννου Φιλήμονος [1]
- Ιωάννης Φιλήμων. Δοκίμιον ιστορικόν περί της Φιλικής Εταιρείας. - Ναύπλιο, 1834.
Links
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Δημήτρης Φωτιάδης. Η Επανάσταση του 1821. - Μέλισσα, 1971.
- ↑ Δέσποινα Θεµελή-Κατηφόρη,