Talk:Konstantinos Mousouros

Genealogics biography about him
Genealogics (currently under editorship of Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler) writes about Konstantinos Mousouros:

BIOGRAPHY Konstantinos Mousouros (1807-1891) is a Greek-originated diplomat in service of the Osman Empire. Born in Phanar (the most traditional Greek part of Istanbul), he is from noble Cretan-Phanariote Mousouron family, with claimed roots in the Roman Empire of Constantinople. He is son of Mousouros, who had come from the island of Crete, and his wife Kassandra. He is ambassador of the Osman Empire to Greece, from 1834 until 1848, during the reign of king Othon, and then Osman ambassador to Vienna, London and Torino. He is a staunch defender of Osman interests and plays a leading role in two diplomatic incidents in Athens: 1846 about mishandling of the then Prime Minister Ioannis Kolettis (1773-1847): the episode brings about an interruption of diplomatic relations between the two countries for about a year. After the restoration of diplomatic relations and Mousouros' return to Athens, an assassination attempt took place there 23 April 1848 against him (the Mousouros assassination attempt). He is slightly injured as outcome. Results in new tension in diplomatic relations. Eventually in the same year he is transferred to Vienna, where he remains until ?1851.

[quote from the Vanity Fair cover, 4 Feb 1871] 'The most interesting of all the diplomatic corps in London'... 'His excellency Constantine Musurus, commonly called Musurus Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, is of Greek extraction, and was born in 1807. His diplomatic career, so far as it belongs to the general history of Europe, dates from 1848, when he represented the Sultan at Vienna, having previously distinguished himself as Minister at Athens. In 1851 he came to London invested with full powers as Envoy Extraordinary of the Sublime Porte.'

He is scholar and translated into archaic Greek dialect verses of the 'Divine Comedy' of Dante, which he published in London in 1883.

In London he lost his wife, princess Anna Vogoridaina, to death.

Mousouros is brother of Pavlos Mousouros, Duke of Samos (1810-1876) who reigned as Duke of the autonomous principality of Samos 1866-1873.

One of ambassador Konstantinos Mousouros' sons is Stephanos Mousouros (1851-1907), who later (for the reign between Jul 1896 and year 1899) became Duke, ruler of the autonomous principality of Samos.

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2001:14BA:485C:F700:750C:A7B7:264B:CFC8 (talk) 08:41, 28 April 2022 (UTC)