Zinovios Valvis | |
Office: | Prime Minister of Greece |
Term Start: | 11 February 1863 |
Term End: | 25 March 1863 (o.s.) |
Predecessor: | Aristidis Moraitinis |
Successor: | Diomidis Kyriakos |
Monarch2: | George I of Greece |
Term Start2: | 16 April 1864 |
Term End2: | 26 July 1864 (o.s.) |
Predecessor2: | Konstantinos Kanaris |
Successor2: | Konstantinos Kanaris |
Office3: | Minister for Finance |
Term Start3: | 28 July 1849 |
Term End3: | 10 May 1850 |
Predecessor3: | Lykourgos Krestenitis |
Successor3: | Anastasios Lontos |
Office4: | Minister for Justice |
Term Start4: | 12 October 1849 |
Term End4: | 10 May 1850 |
Predecessor4: | Dimitrios Kallergis |
Successor4: | Nikolaos Chrisogelos |
Party: | Independent |
Birth Date: | 1800 |
Birth Place: | Missolonghi, Ottoman Empire |
Death Place: | Missolonghi, Greece |
Education: | Halki seminary University of Pisa |
Zinovios Zafirios I. Valvis (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ζηνόβιος-Ζαφείριος Ι. Βάλβης; 1800 – 25 August 1886) was a Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece. Valvis was born in 1800 in Missolonghi.[1] He first studied theology at the Theological School of Halki[2] but switched to law, furthering his studies in Pisa, Italy.[3] [4] Valvis married Arsinoe Ratzikosta and fathered nine children. He twice served as prime minister but fell on hard times in his old age, dying impoverished in 1872 after refusing a state pension so as not to be a burden on the Greek state. Zinovios Valvis was the brother of Dimitrios Valvis who also served as Prime Minister. He died in Missolonghi in 1886.