Emanuel Ypsilanti
Emanuel Fürst Ypsilanti ( Greek Εμμανουήλ Υψηλάντης Emmanouíl Ypsilándis , born April 30, 1877 in Paris , † December 17, 1940 in Vienna ) was a Greek diplomat and politician.
Life
family
Emanuel Ypsilanti was the son of the Greek ambassador to the Viennese court Gregor Fürst Ypsilanti (1835–1886) and Helene nee. Baroness of Sina (1845-1893).
On his father's side, he came from a Phanariotic family. His great-grandfather was Prince Konstantin Ypsilanti , voivode of Moldavia and Wallachia . His great-great-grandfather was the dragoman at the Sublime Porte and later Voivode of Moldavia and Wallachia Alexander Ypsilantis (1725-1807).
On his mother's side, he came from a Greek-Austrian merchant family. His grandfather was the philanthropist and astronomer Simon of Sina . The businessman and banker of Aromanian descent Georg Simon von Sina was his great-grandfather. His great-great-grandfather Simon Georg Sina the Elder was the founder of Austria’s foreign trade with the Ottoman Empire and one of Hungary’s most important bankers in his time.
Ypsilanti was married to Esmeralda von Galeotti (1875–1929).
The general in the fight for the independence of Greece Alexander Ypsilantis was his great-uncle.
A grandson of Emanuel Ypsilanti is the divorced husband of SPD politician Andrea Ypsilanti Manolis (Emmanuel) Ypsilantis (* 1944).
Career
After visiting the Schottengymnasiums in Vienna Emanuel Ypsilanti studied at the University of Athens , the University La Sapienza of Rome , the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Law . In 1899 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn .
After completing his studies, Ypsilanti first lived in Vienna and Rappoltenkirchen, where he became captain of the volunteer fire brigade. In 1909 he was elected the first president of the newly founded Austrian Cynological Association.
He became Royal Greek Prefect of Corfu , deputy, Greek envoy and finally Minister of the Interior. At the end of the 1920s he lived again in Austria at Rappoltenkirchen Castle , which he and his brother Theodor owned.
literature
- Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 244.
- GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 241.
Web links
- Ypsilanti on www.heirsofeurope.blogspot.de
- Picture by Emanuel Ypsilanti on www.bildarchivaustria.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ypsilanti, Gregor Fürst at www.deutsche-biographie.de
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 717
- ↑ 1883 - Founding of the Rappoltenkirchen Volunteer Fire Brigade at www.ff-rappoltenkirchen.at
- ^ Ekrem Bey Vlora: Memoirs of Life , Volume 2, 1912 to 1925 , 1973, p. 101
- ^ Roman Sandgruber: Dream time for millionaires: The 929 richest Viennese in 1910 , 2013, p. 466
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ypsilanti, Emanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ypsilanti, Emanuel Fürst; Υψηλάντης, Εμμανουήλ (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek diplomat and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th December 1940 |
| Place of death | Vienna |