Epameinondas Deligeorgis

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Epameinondas Deligiorgis (Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".; 10 January 1829 – 14 May 1879)Template:Greece Old Style dating was a Greek freemason,[1] lawyer and politician - the youngest Prime Minister of Greece, taking office at the age of 36. His parliamentary activity numbered 13 years and he served as Prime Minister of the country 6 times.[2]

He was born in Tripoli, Arcadia, the son of Dimitrios Deligeorgis, a revolutionary and politician from Missolonghi who participated in the Greek War of Independence. Deligiorgis studied law at the University of Athens. He began practicing law in 1850, and in the years that followed became the idol of the liberal "golden youth". He was elected for the first time as an MP of Missolonghi in 1859 and openly opposed the dynasty, which resulted in his being excluded from the Parliament. [3]

He was not a proponent of the Megali Idea (Great Idea) and thought that a better solution to the Eastern Question would be to improve the condition of the Greeks living in Ottoman-controlled Macedonia, Epirus, Thrace and Asia Minor by liberalising the Ottoman Empire.

According to the writer of his biography : Epaminondas Deligeorgis belonged to a new generation of liberal politicians (Golden Youth) who contributed decisively to the liberalization of the country. Militant demonstrations, dense columns (in journalistic publications such as "Panhellenion", "Athena", "Nea Genea"), participation in military postures, fiery speeches in parliament were some of the characteristics of this generation of politicians, who embodied the concept of the "nation in arms", i.e. the combination of nationalism and radical liberalism.[4] He died in Athens, aged 50.

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Sources

  • Georg Veloudis: "Delijeorjis, Epaminondas", in Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas. Vol. 1. Munich 1974, pp. 385–387.
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