Apostol Arsache

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Apostol Arsache
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
22 January 1862 – 24 June 1862
Preceded byoffice established
Succeeded byAlexandru Cantacuzino
acting Prime Minister of Romania
In office
8 June 1862 – 23 June 1862
MonarchAlexandru Ioan Cuza
Preceded byBarbu Catargiu
Succeeded byNicolae Crețulescu
Personal details
Born1789 (1789)
Vilayet of Yannina, Ottoman Empire[1]
Died1869(1869-00-00) (aged 79–80)
Bucharest

Apostol Arsache (in Romanian) or Apostolos Arsakis (Greek: Απόστολος Αρσάκης; 1789 – 1869) was a Greek-Romanian politician and philanthropist. He was one of the major benefactors of 19th-century Greece,[2] while at the same time he became a leading political figure in Romania.[3]

Life

Arsache was born in the village of

University of Halle and studied Medicine.[11] Arsache composed a treatise under the title Ἔκθεσις συνοπτικὴ τῆς Ἰατρικῆς ἱστορίας (Coincise Report of the History of Medicine) in Ancient Greek,[10] which was published at the Greek periodical Hermes o Logios, in Vienna.[11] At 1807 he published his thesis De Piscium Celebro et Medulla Spinali in Latin.[10]

In 1814 he moved to

Cabinet of Barbu Catargiu (22 January to 24 June 1862), he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and following Catargiu's assassination on 20 June, Arsache briefly served as interim Prime Minister of Romania
.

Contribution to Greece

He became one of the major benefactors of the newly established Greek state. In 1850 he offered large sums of money for the establishment of a female educational institutions in the Greek capital, Athens, housed in a luxurious mansions at the city center.[1] Arsache donated a total of 600,000 golden drachmas for this purpose. This institution bore the name Arsakeio after him.[12] Because of his initiative the Greek Parliament gave him honorary Greek citizenship. He also managed to build a school in his home town in 1870.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Benefactors of Filekpaideftiki Etaireia". Φιλεκπαιδευτική Εταιρεία. Retrieved 20 January 2012.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Alexakis, Eleftherios. "Benefaction and Benevolence: The Concept of the Pure Gift and Realization of the Community in Greece" (PDF). Academy of Athens. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
  3. ISBN 978-0-87338-459-9
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  4. ISBN 088033228X
    , p. 62 "Men such as , e.g. Manolache Arghiropolu and Apostol Arsache ( Arsachi ) a physician of Albanian origin".
  5. ^ Buda, O. (2016).A THESIS ON THE COMPARATIVE NEUROANATOMY OF FISH BY A SCIENTIST FROM THE BALKANS, APOSTOLE ARSAKY, 1813.
  6. ^ Tomara-Sideris, Matoula. The contribution of Vlach benefactors in the shaping of modern Greece.
  7. S2CID 147716306
    . Founded thanks to the donation of Apostolos Arsakis, a wealthy Greek of Romania.
  8. ISBN 978-2-85653-844-9
    . Apostolos Arsakis (1792-1874), a Greek physician...
  9. ISBN 978-3-030-44935-3
    . The school was called Arsakeion after the name of the Greek benefactor A. Arsakis...
  10. ^ a b c d Αναστασιάδου, Αλεξάνδρα. "Ο Ηπειρωτικός Ευεργετισμός ως Συνεκτικός Πολιτισμικός Παράγοντας μεταξύ των Λαών της Δύσης και της καθ' ημάς Ανατολή" (PDF). Ένωση επιστημόνων Αθηνών. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
  11. ^ a b "Οι Ευεργέτες". arsakeio.gr. Retrieved 20 January 2012.[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ Georgeta Filitti-Penelea – Apostol Arsachi. În: PVB, 1995, 1, pp. 57–62.
    Georgeta Filitti-Penelea – Apostol Arsaki – un personaj istoric uitat (Le docteur Apostol Arsaki (XIX s.). În: Magazin Istoric, 1996, 30, nr. 1, pp. 20–22
    Dimitris Michalopoulos, "Apostol Arsachi", Revue Roumaine d'Histoire, tomes XL-XLI (2001–2002), pp. 139–158.
    Dimitris Michalopoulos, Arsaki. La vie d'un homme d'Etat, București: Editura Academiei Române, 2008.
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