Argyrios Vouzas Explained

Argyrios Vouzas
Native Name:Αργύριος Βούζας
Birth Date:c. 1857
Birth Place:Kastoria, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
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Battles:Macedonian Struggle
Balkan Wars

North Epirote Struggle

Alma Mater:University of Athens
Laterwork:Doctor
member of the New Filiki Etaireia

Argyrios Vouzas (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αργύριος Βούζας) was a Greek revolutionary and doctor of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biography

Vouzas was born in about 1857 in Kastoria, then Ottoman Empire (now Greece).[1] He studied at a Greek school of Kastoria, at a Monastir high school and later graduated in medicine from the University of Athens. He became a doctor, acting in the areas of Kastoria and Florina. He soon became a member of the so-called "New Filiki Etaireia", established by Anastasios Pichion in 1867.[2] His actions were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, which lead to his imprisonment in Monastir. When he was released, he assisted the Macedonian Committee as a military doctor. During the First Balkan War he was appointed as a director of a 150-bed military hospital. Shortly after, in 1914, he volunteered for the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Λόγιοι και επιστήμονες της Τουρκοκρατίας (μέρος 4ο) . 3 June 2014 .
  2. Book: Vakalopoulos, Konstantinos . 1983 . Ho voreios hellēnismos kata tēn prōimē phasē tou Makedōnikou agōna, 1878-1894 . Institute for Balkan Studies . 406 .
  3. Book: Dafoulis, Pavlos Ach. . Η υγειονομική περίθαλψη κατά την ένοπλο φάση του Μακεδονικού Αγώνος (1904-1908) και η δράση των εφέδρων και μονίμων αξιωματικών του υγειονομικού που συμμετείχαν στον Μακεδονικό Αγώνα . 2007 . . 212 .