Apostol Arsache | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 22 January 1862 – 24 June 1862 | |
| Preceded by | office established |
| Succeeded by | Alexandru Cantacuzino |
| actingPrime Minister of Romania | |
| In office 8 June 1862 – 23 June 1862 | |
| Monarch | Alexandru Ioan Cuza |
| Preceded by | Barbu Catargiu |
| Succeeded by | Nicolae Kretzulescu |
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| Born | 1789 (1789) |
| Died | 1869(1869-00-00) (aged 79–80) Bucharest,Romania |
| Alma mater | University of Halle-Wittenberg |
Apostol Arsache (Romanian pronunciation:[aˈpostolarˈsake]) orApostolos Arsakis (Greek:Απόστολος Αρσάκης;Greek pronunciation:[aˈpostolosarˈsacis]; 1789 – 1869) was a Greek-Romanian politician and philanthropist. He was one of the major benefactors of 19th-century Greece,[2] while at the same time he became a leading political figure in Romania.[3]
Arsache was born in the village ofHotovë,Përmet District, modern southern Albania, then in Ottoman Empire. He was of eitherAlbanian,[4]Aromanian[5][6] or Greek descent.[7][8][9] In 1800, Arsache moved together with his family to Vienna, there he was educated in a school of the local Greek diaspora. Among his teachers wasNeophytos Doukas, prominent figure of themodern Greek Enlightenment. At 1807 Doukas published anepigram composed by Arsache about the work,Breviarium historiae Romanae, of historianEutropius.[10] He then went to theUniversity of Halle and studied medicine.[11] Arsache composed a treatise under the titleἜκθεσις συνοπτικὴ τῆς Ἰατρικῆς ἱστορίας (Coincise Report of the History of Medicine) inAncient Greek,[10] which was published at the Greek periodicalHermes o Logios, in Vienna.[11] At 1807 he published his thesisDe Piscium Celebro et Medulla Spinali in Latin.[10]
In 1814 he moved to Bucharest, Romania. In theCabinet ofBarbu Catargiu (22 January to 24 June 1862), he served asMinister of Foreign Affairs and following Catargiu's assassination on 20 June, Arsache briefly served as interimPrime Minister of Romania.
He became one of the major benefactors of the newly established Greek state. In 1850 he offered large sums of money for the establishment of a female educational institutions in the Greek capital, Athens, housed in a luxurious mansions at the city center.[1] Arsache donated a total of 600,000 golden drachmas for this purpose. This institution bore the nameArsakeio after him.[12] Because of his initiative the Greek Parliament gave him honorary Greek citizenship. He also managed to build a school in his home town in 1870.[10]
Founded thanks to the donation of Apostolos Arsakis, a wealthy Greek of Romania.
Apostolos Arsakis (1792-1874), a Greek physician...
The school was called Arsakeion after the name of the Greek benefactor A. Arsakis...
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