Constantin Caradja

Constantin Caradja (* 1795 in Constantinople ; † June 20, 1860 in The Hague ) was a Greek diplomat .

Life

Constantin caradja 1833 was Greek charge d'affaires in Munich in the Kingdom of Bavaria .

On April 22, 1834, he had an audience with the Austrian Emperor Franz II in his capacity as Greek envoy and informed him of Otto's accession to the throne of Greece.

From June 2, 1834 he was the Greek envoy to Napoleon III. in Paris.

In 1832, Simon von Eichthal arranged for Jakob Rothschild to sell a Greek government bond worth 60 million French francs . Of the first forty million emitted, 11 were intended as compensation to the Ottoman Empire for Greece's exit. In the summer of 1834, when the Rothschilds reduced payments, there were still five million outstanding of the Ottoman claim. The Sublime Porte was disgruntled and refused to receive the Greek ambassador. Constantin Caradja and Michael Soutzos, his predecessor as the Greek envoy in Paris, represented the position of the Greek government with the von Eichthals and threatened the Rothschilds to withdraw their contract for the distribution of government bonds.

Until 1837 he was in the service of Greece, then he switched to the service of the Ottoman Empire.

From May 1850 to October 1852 he was extraordinary Ottoman envoy in Berlin , where he married Catherine Tabacopoulo on January 12, 1852 and was portrayed by Wilhelm Hensel in pencil, heightened in white on cardboard, with yellowish tone printing, 280 × 200 mm.

From January 22, 1855 to 1858 he was Ottoman envoy extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in The Hague , where he died on June 20, 1860.

relationship

His Greek family Caradja lived in Phanar in Constantinople . From this family came a patriarch, several grand dragoman and two hegemonic voivodes of Wallachia. Their representatives were in the service of the Sublime Porte .

His father was Ioannis Georgios Karatzas , who died on December 27, 1844 in Athens.

His first marriage was to Adèle Condo Dandolo (1814-1891), their son was Jean Karadja Pascha, who married Mary Karadja and had Constantin Karadja as a son with her .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavaria, Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria: 1867, online at Google Books, p. 31.
2. ^ Munich political newspaper : with the highest privilege. 1834, online at Google Books
3. ↑ Kaiserl. Royal privileged Salzburger Zeitung, June 13th 1834 Paris, June 3rd. On June 2nd, Prince Constantin Caradja, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Sr. Maj. The King of Greece, had his inaugural audience with the King of the French online at Google Books
4. ↑ Korinna Schönhärl, Financiers in Sehnsuchtsäume: European Banks and Greece in the 19th Century, online at Google Books, p. 149.
5. ↑ Catherine Tambacopoulo (* 1820 in Paris, † April 12, 1893) came from a banking family in Tripoli , which was the seat of the Ottoman governor of the Peloponnese and was hotly contested during the Greek Revolution . She married the diplomat Prince Constantin Caradja, a Greek 25 years older who was in the service of the Sublime Porte. Her husband was divorced from his first marriage and the father of a son, Johannes, born in 1835. Catherine gave birth to two children, Georges in 1851 and Marie in 1854. see. Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel , Sigrid Strachwitz, Wilhelm Hensel , Portrait of Europe, drawings by Wilhelm Hensel 1794–1861, 2005, p. 93.

predecessor	Office	successor
	Greek chargé d'affaires in Munich 1833	Konstantin Schinas
	Greek envoy in Vienna April 22, 1834	Georg Simon of Sina
Michael Soutzos	Greek envoy to Paris June 2, 1834 to 1835	Ioannis Kolettis
Karabet Artin Davutoğlu Bey	Ottoman envoy in Berlin from May 1850 to October 1852	Ali Rıza Efendi
	Ottoman envoy to The Hague January 22, 1855 to 1858	Yahya Karaca Paşa

1. ^ Karabet Artin Davutoğlu Bey