Christoforos Nezer (Bavarian)
Christoforos Nezer (Greek: Χριστόφορος Νέζερ; German: Christoph Neeser; 1808-1883) was a Bavarian officer who settled in Greece. He arrived in the country in 1833 in the expeditionary corps that accompanied Prince Otto, Greece's first king. In mid-March of the same year, as a lieutenant, he was appointed head of the Athens guard. On 1 April, together with the Bavarian Major Paligan, he received the keys of the Acropolis of Athens from its last Ottoman commandant, Osman Efendi.[1]
He married twice with Greek women and had 26 children. Of his grandchildren, the most notable were actress Marika Nezer and two further who bore his name, a cousin and a brother of Marika. He also wrote a memoir titled The First Years of the Foundation of the Greek Kingdom.
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- 1808 births
- 1883 deaths
- Military personnel of Bavaria
- German emigrants to Greece
- History of Greece (1832–1862)
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