Dimitrios Ypsilantis

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Painting by Spyridon Prosalentis
Tomb, from 1843 also tomb, from Ypsilantis in Nafplio

Dimitrios Ypsilantis (also Demetrios , Demetrius , also Ypsilanti ; Greek Δημήτριος Υψηλάντης ; * 1793 in Constantinople ; † August 16, 1832 in Nafplio ) was a dragoman in the Ottoman Empire , an officer in the Russian Tsarist army in the Moldavia region under Ioannis Kapodistrias and later politicians. Ypsilantis was a brother of Alexander Ypsilantis .

Life

Dimitrios Ypsilantis came from the Phanarioten family Ypsilantis and was born in 1793 as the second of three sons of Prince Konstantin Ypsilantis, Prince of Moldavia and Voivode of Wallachia . He was educated in France at a military school . In 1814, like his older brother, he became a member of the Russian army. In the same year, he went to the Morea , where the Greek War of Independence had broken out, on the orders of his brother, who was now Commander-in-Chief of the Greek Army . He was one of the leaders of the Phanariotes early on, although the civil government under Alexandros Mavrokordatos was not well-disposed towards him and put obstacles in his way.

At the instigation of Ypsilantis, who had meanwhile become his brother's successor and was considered a representative of the anti-Ottoman secret society Filiki Eteria , the first Greek National Assembly took place, and he was elected President on January 15, 1822. In 1823, however, he was forced to resign because of a failed campaign in central Greece.

In 1828 Ioannis Kapodistrias made him commander of the troops in eastern Greece. On September 25, 1829, he forced the Turkish officer Aslan Bey to surrender at the Battle of Petra , ending the active fighting of the war.

Up until his death, Ypsilantis maintained an extended love affair with freedom fighter Manto Mavrogenous .

honors

The local community in Aliartos parish of Aliartos Ypsilandis municipality in Greece and the town of Ypsilanti in Michigan is named after Dimitrios Ypsilantis.

literature

  • Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen: History of Greece from the beginning of historical knowledge to our days . Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1840, pp. 262–264, 268–270, 341f, 353, 379, 387, 466, 476, 498, 501–504, 558 ( Online at Google Books )

web links

Commons : Demetrios Ypsilantis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. a b c d e Hugh Chisholm (ed.): Ypsilanti . In: Encyclopædia Britannica , Volume 28, 1911, pp. 941f (digital copy at Internet Archive )