Konstantin Schinas

Konstantin Demetriou Schinas, portrait in the gala uniform of an ambassador (campaign uniform), engraving by Τρύφων Ευαγγελίδης 1863–1941

Konstantin Demetriou Schinas (* 1795 in Constantinople ; † July 22, 1857 Vienna ) was a Greek politician and diplomat under Otto (Greece) .

Life

Σχινάς was a patrician family in Constantinople.

At the beginning of the Greek Revolution in 1821, Schinas began studying law at the University of Berlin, which he continued at the University of Bonn and the University of Paris.

He was Assistant to the Interior Minister from 1828 to 1831 during the government of Ioannis Kapodistrias .

In 1833 he was under Otto (Greece) a member of the committee of experts on the economic situation of the Church of Greece and the monasteries and chairman of the committee for the organization of schools.

Influential Minister of Justice

In October 1833 he became Minister of Justice in the Conseil de Régence grec (Cabinet of Government) of Alexandros Mavrokordatos and acting governor of the territories of the Church of Greece .

In 1832 Otto Anastasios Polyzoidis had appointed judge in high treason proceedings against Theodoros Kolokotronis, Dimitrios Plapoutas and other former leaders of the Greek Revolution . Constantin Shinas failed in an attempt to force Anastasios Polyzoidis to sign the death sentences. He perverted the separation of powers into an application of force by executive power against judicial power, which indicates that he has not read the Σύνταγμα (constitution) of 1822, which was essentially written by Anastasios Polyzoidis.

“The Minister of Justice then ordered the officer of the gendarmerie to force the reluctant man to his seat. As this happened, the doors of the courtroom were opened, and the people streamed in thickly. Polyzoides wanted to get up again and speak to the meeting; but the state procurador threatened him with immediate arrest if he did not comply. Then he gave in, sat down without uttering a sound, and covered his face with both hands. ... The clerk read her death sentence. "

- History of Greece from the arrival of King Otto in Nauplia to his accession to the throne.

At the beginning of October 1834 he married Bettina called Poulette von Savigny (1805–1835) in Ancona , the daughter of his teacher in Athens, Friedrich Carl von Savigny . On May 27, 1837, he became the first rector of the University of Athens . where he was Professor of History from 1837 to 1851. In 1846 he represented them in the Greek Parliament.

From 1849 he was envoy in Munich ( Kingdom of Bavaria ), from 1852 in Berlin and from 1854 in Vienna .

plant

• History of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Translations

Konstantin Schinas translated laws from the German language into the Katharevousa .

• On December 18, 1833, Otto decreed the penal code, Mit Anastasios Polyzoidis
• On February 2, 1834, Otto decreed the court and notary ordinance.
• On March 10, 1834 Otto decreed a code of criminal procedure and a code of civil procedure.

estate

• Bavarian main state archive
• "The political correspondence of Friedrich Thiersch with Konstantin Demetriou Shinas", in: Friedrich Thiersch and the founding of the Greek state from the perspective of the 20th century. Athens 1990, pp. 125-144.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Treatises of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Realschul-Buchhandlung., 1857 ( google.de [accessed on March 31, 2018]).
2. ↑ Georg Ludwig von Maurer , The Greek People in Public, Church and Legal Relationships, p. 494
3. ↑ Neues Rheinisches conversations-lexicon: or Encyclopedic concise dictionary for educated classes . Comptoir for art and literature, 1836, p. 284 ( google.de [accessed on March 31, 2018]).
4. ^ History of Greece from the arrival of King Otto in Nauplia to his accession to the throne (From February 6, 1833 to June 1, 1835), 1839, p. 391
5. ↑ General newspaper from and for Bavaria: Daily newspaper for politics, literature and entertainment . Riedel, 1837 ( google.de [accessed March 31, 2018]).
6. ↑ Anonymus AC07957819: General civil servants' address book for the imperial capital and residence city of Vienna: systematic compilation of all imperial court and state offices of the city authorities, public institutions, associations, etc. etc. and the civil servants, officials and servants employed by them, stating the name, the service status and the apartment; along with alphabetical registers . Manz, 1853 ( google.de [accessed March 31, 2018]).
7. ↑ Σχινάς Κωνσταντίνος (1801-1857) . In: ΑΡΓΟΛΙΚΗ ΑΡΧΕΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ . April 6, 2010 ( argolikivivliothiki.gr [accessed March 31, 2018]).
8. ↑ Polyzoides translated the Criminal Code in collaboration with Konstantin Schinas; Shinas translated the other three statutes alone. Printing is said to have been an even more difficult business than translation; yet, before the departure of the old reign, three of the named codes of law were completely printed and distributed, of the fourth, the code of civil procedure, the history of Greece from the arrival of King Otto in Nauplia to 1839, p. 326
9. ^ General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives: Find aids database - General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives . ( bayern.de [accessed on March 31, 2018]).
10. ↑ 7P Infolytics: Search. Accessed March 31, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Alexandros Mavrokordatos	Greek envoy in Munich from 1849 to 1857	Simon of Sina
Alexandros Mavrokordatos	Greek envoy in Berlin from 1852 to 1857	Simon of Sina
Simon of Sina	Greek envoy in Vienna 1854 to 1857	Gregorios Manos