Amalia Fleming

Lady Amalia Fleming (born June 28, 1912 in Constantinople , † February 26, 1986 , maiden name Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas ) was a Greek doctor , activist and politician .

Fleming was born in Constantinople, now Istanbul, in 1912. She moved to Greece and participated in the resistance during the occupation of Greece in World War II and was imprisoned for it by the Italians. In 1953 she married Alexander Fleming , but he died in 1955.

She returned to Greece in 1963 and was arrested in the Greek military dictatorship . In 1971 she was released due to health problems, but she was exiled and her passport was revoked. In exile, she wrote the book A Piece of Truth about her captivity and the trial of the resistance fighter Alekos Panagoulis . In London she worked with Melina Mercouri and Eleni Vlachos from the Kathimerini newspaper against the military dictatorship.

After the dictatorship fell in 1974, Fleming returned to Greece. She joined the social democratic party PASOK and was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1977, 1981 and 1985 . She was also active in human rights organizations such as Amnesty International , Democratic Concern, and Human Rights Union.

Fleming initiated and established the Greek Foundation for Basic Biological Research, called Alexander Fleming , in 1965 , which was later converted into a biomedical research center that conducts research in various biological and medical fields as a non-profit organization .

Amalia Fleming died in 1986. In the same year a hospital was founded in Athens and named Sismanogleio Amalia Fleming Hospital in her honor .

Web links

• Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Clogg: Obituary: Helen Vlachos. In: The Independent . October 17, 1995, accessed March 15, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Γενικό Νοσοκομείο Αττικης Σισμανόγλειο- Αμαλία Φλέμινγκ . flemig-hospital.gr, accessed May 13, 2014 (Greek).