Georgios Kountouriotis
Georgios Kountouriotis Γεώργιος Κουντουριώτης | |
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 Georgios Kountouriotis, lithography by Karl Krazeisen | |
| President of the Provisional Administration of Greece | |
| In office December 31, 1823 – April 26, 1826 | |
| Preceded by | Petros Mavromichalis |
| Succeeded by | Andreas Zaimis as President of the Governmental Commission |
| Prime Minister of Greece | |
| In office March 4, 1848 – October 15, 1848 | |
| Monarch | Otto |
| Preceded by | Kitsos Tzavelas |
| Succeeded by | Konstantinos Kanaris |
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| Born | 1782 Hydra, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1858 March, 13 (aged 76) Athens, Greece |
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Georgios Kountouriotis (Greek: Γεώργιος Κουντουριώτης) (1782 – 13 March 1858) was a Greek ship-owner and politician who served as prime minister from March to October 1848. He was born in 1782 on the Saronic island of Hydra to an Arvanite family.[1] He was the brother of Lazaros Kountouriotis, another ship-owner of the Greek War of Independence and grandfather of Pavlos Kountouriotis who fought in the First Balkan War and later served as first (1924-1926) President of the Second Hellenic Republic.
When the War of Independence broke out, Georgios, along with the rest of the Kountouriotis family, supported the effort with generous donations as well as with their ships. He was often at odds with other Hydriot sea captains, but ultimately was the wealthiest. Georgios Kountouriotis became a member of the executive committee of the Greek Revolution and served as its president from 1823 to 1826 during the crucial time of the siege of Missolonghi.
After independence, he became a member of the cabinet of Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first governor of Greece. He was a semi-independent adherent of the French Party mostly due to his antipathy to the Russian Party and his fellow Hydriots of the English Party. During the period of French Party ascendancy in the reign of King Otto, he served as Prime Minister. He died in 1858.
The Koundouriotis family used extensively their native Arvanitic dialect of Hydra. The dialect has been documented in Georgios' private correspondence with Ioannis Orlandos.[2]
References[]
- ^ Peter Trudgill Sociolinguistic variation and change, Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7486-1515-5
- ^ Jochalas, Titos (2020). "Lettere di contenuto velenoso inviate da Londra al Primo Ministro greco scritte nel dialetto albanese di Idra (1824)". Shejzat. 3–4: 69.
I testi che seguono sono due “documenti arvanitici” , unici nel loro genere, che rispecchiano le cricche e le passioni politiche, che dilaniavano la Grecia subito dopo l’indipendenza nazionale. Si tratta di due lettere che Ioannis Orlandos inviò da Londra, il 20 settembre del 1824 e il 16 marzo dello stesso anno, a Gheorghios Cunduriotis, Presidente dell’Esecutivo del Governo provvisorio del paese...Sembra che la lingua abituale di comunicazione dei Cundurioti anche con il loro cognato fosse l’arvanitica di Idra.
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- 1782 births
- 1858 deaths
- 19th-century heads of state of Greece
- 19th-century prime ministers of Greece
- 19th-century Greek businesspeople
- Arvanites
- Prime Ministers of Greece
- People from Hydra (island)
- Greek people of the Greek War of Independence
- Ministers of Naval Affairs of Greece
- Greek businesspeople in shipping