Avraam Vaporidis
Avraam Vaporidis | |
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 Avraam Vaporidis | |
| Born | 1855 Fertek, Konya Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1911 (aged 55–56) Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
Avraam Vaporidis (Greek: Αβραάμ Βαπορίδης (Εφέντη); Turkish: Avraam Vaporidi Efendi) also known as Avraam Efendi (1855, Fertek – 1911, Constantinople), was a distinguished ethnic Greek author, scholar and historian living in the Ottoman Empire. He was a high-ranking dignitary of the late Ottoman Empire who also served as a senior Government official and was an inspector (Matbaalar Müfettişi) of the Court of the Imperial Ministry of Education.[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Avraam Vaporidis was born in 1855 to a Cappadocian Greek family in the city of Fertek, Niğde province in Central Anatolia.[3] Vaporidis worked at the ministry of education and published biographies of the Ottoman Sultans and the history of the Ottoman Empire for publications in Greek schools in the late nineteenth century.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Özdalga, Elisabeth (2013). Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy. Routledge. p. 232. ISBN 9781134294732.
The Greek inspector, Avraam Vaporides, also seems to have been a respected member of the community.
- ^ Göyünç, Nejat (1997). "Das" Osmanische Reich in seinen Archivalien und Chroniken: Nejat Göyünç zu Ehren. In Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. p. 225.
… three senior government officials with the rank of ülä and säniyye (in 1901, these were Alexander Caratheodory Pasha, Alexander Mavroyeni Pasha and Avraam Vaporides Efendi), two with the (military) rank of miralay and three other civil servants; d) the governor of Samos or his qapukethüdä e) the qapukethüdäs …
- ^ ΚΥΡΙΑΚΑΝΤΩΝΑΚΗΣ, ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ. "Η ελληνική λογιοσύνη της Κωνσταντινούπολης" (PDF). Κέντρο Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2018.
ΒΑΠΟΡΙΔΗΣ, ΑΒΡΑΑΜ Νίγδη (Φερτέκι, Καππαδοκία), 1855–Κωνσταντινούπολη, 1911 Κρατικός αξιωματούχος, μέλος του Ελεγκτικού Συνεδρίου του Αυτοκρ. Υπουργείου Παιδείας: «επιθεωρητής των τυπογραφείων και ελεγκτής των ελληνικών βιβλίων». Συνέγραψε οθωμανική ιστορία: Επίτομος βιογραφική ιστορία των Σουλτάνων της Οθωμανικής αυτοκρατορίας προς χρήσιν των σχολών δύο τομίδια (πρώτη έκδ.: ΚΠ., Βουτυράς: 1885)
- ^ Dumont, Paul. Turquie: livres d'hier, livres d'aujourd'hui. Centre de recherche sur la civilisation ottomane et le domaine turc contemporain, Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg. p. 1992. OCLC 837653366.
Un de ces inspecteurs (matbaalar mUfettifi) du ministère de l'Instruction publique, Avraam Vaporidis, se signala en publiant un recueil de biographies de sultans à l'usage des écoles (Viographikê,. Historia tôn Sultanbn tis Othomanikis ...
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