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.
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]