Ioannis Mazarakis-Ainian

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Ioannis Mazarakis-Ainian (Greek: Ιωάννης Μαζαράκης-Αινιάν, 1923 – 19 February 2021) was a Greek army officer, politician, and historian.

Life

Ioannis Mazarakis-Ainian was born in Athens in 1923, the son of Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian, a general and guerrilla leader in the Macedonian Struggle.[1]

During the

Greek War Cross four times, and the Distinguished Acts Medal twice, making him one of the most highly decorated officers in Greek history.[1]

He left the army soon after the end of the Civil War, and served as prefect of the

Kastoria Prefecture from 1962 until April 1967, when he resigned.[1] In 1977–1979, in the lead-up to Greece's accession to the European Economic Community, he was head of the Greek press office in Brussels.[1] After 1979, he served as secretary-general of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece (I&EEE), which supervises the National Historical Museum in Athens, a post he held for over forty years.[1]

His son, Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian, became an admiral and chief of the Greek navy's Fleet Command.[1]

Works

  • Notes from the Raiding Units (1947-1949) (Σημειώματα από τις Μονάδες Καταδρομών (1947-1949)), self-published
  • History of the Greek Flag (Ιστορία της Ελληνικής Σημαίας), I&EEE editions
  • The Macedonian Question and the Birth of the new Macedonian Question (Το Μακεδονικό ζήτημα και η γέννηση του νέου Μακεδονικού ζητήματος), Dodoni editions
  • The Filiki Etaireia (Η Φιλική Εταιρεία), I&EEE editions
  • Sketch of Modern Greek History (Διάγραμμα της Νεότερης Ελληνικής Ιστορίας), I&EEE editions
  • Struggles of Modern Hellenism (Αγώνες του Νεότερου Ελληνισμού), Dodoni editions
  • Flags of Liberty - Collections of the National Historical Museum (Σημαίες Ελευθερίας – Συλλογή Εθνικού Ιστορικού Μουσείου), I&EEE editions
  • The new Macedonian Question today (Το νέο Μακεδονικό ζήτημα σήμερα), Dodoni editions
  • The Macedonian Struggle. With a Map of the Schools of Macedonia and Images (Ο Μακεδονικός Αγώνας. Με ένα χάρτη των Σχολείων της Μακεδονίας και εικόνες), Dodoni editions
  • The Entry of the Ottoman Empire into the War and the Gallipoli Operation (Η Είσοδος της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας στον πόλεμο και η επιχείρηση της Καλλιπόλεως), National Historical Museum editions
  • The ship figureheads of the National Historical Museum (Τα ακρόπρωρα του Εθνικού Ιστορικού Μουσείου), I&EEE editions
  • The Macedonian Struggle (Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών), Real News editions.
  • The Greek Printing Presses of the Greek Revolution 1821-1827 (Τα Ελληνικά Τυπογραφεία του Αγώνα 1821–1827), I&EEE editions
  • The Naval Struggle 1821-1830 (Ο Ναυτικός Αγώνας 1821–1830), I&EEE editions

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Blaveris, Leonidas S. (22 February 2021). "Πλήρης ημερών έφυγε ο Ιωάννης Κ. Μαζαράκης-Αινιάν, ένας από τους πρώτους ΛΟΚατζήδες" (in Greek). parapolitika.gr.
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