Avraam Vaporidis | |
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 Avraam Vaporidis | |
| Born | 1855 (1855) Fertek,Konya Vilayet,Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1911 (aged 55–56) Constantinople,Ottoman Empire |
Avraam Vaporidis (Greek:Αβραάμ Βαπορίδης (Εφέντη);Turkish:Avraam Vaporidi Efendi) also known asAvraam Efendi (1855,Fertek – 1911,Constantinople), was a distinguished ethnicGreek author,scholar and historian living in the Ottoman Empire. He was a high-ranking dignitary of the lateOttoman Empire who also served as a senior Government official and was an inspector (Matbaalar Müfettişi) of the Court of the ImperialMinistry of Education.[1][2]
Avraam Vaporidis was born in 1855 to aCappadocian Greek family in the city ofFertek,Niğde province in Central Anatolia.[3] Vaporidis worked at the ministry of education and published biographies of the Ottoman Sultans and the history of the Ottoman Empire for publications in Greek schools in the late nineteenth century.[4]
The Greek inspector, Avraam Vaporides, also seems to have been a respected member of the community.
… three senior government officials with the rank of ülä and säniyye (in 1901, these were Alexander Caratheodory Pasha, Alexander Mavroyeni Pasha and Avraam Vaporides Efendi), two with the (military) rank of miralay and three other civil servants; d) the governor of Samos or his qapukethüdä e) the qapukethüdäs …
ΒΑΠΟΡΙΔΗΣ, ΑΒΡΑΑΜ Νίγδη (Φερτέκι, Καππαδοκία), 1855–Κωνσταντινούπολη, 1911 Κρατικός αξιωματούχος, μέλος του Ελεγκτικού Συνεδρίου του Αυτοκρ. Υπουργείου Παιδείας: «επιθεωρητής των τυπογραφείων και ελεγκτής των ελληνικών βιβλίων». Συνέγραψε οθωμανική ιστορία: Επίτομος βιογραφική ιστορία των Σουλτάνων της Οθωμανικής αυτοκρατορίας προς χρήσιν των σχολών δύο τομίδια (πρώτη έκδ.: ΚΠ., Βουτυράς: 1885)
Un de ces inspecteurs (matbaalar mUfettifi) du ministère de l'Instruction publique, Avraam Vaporidis, se signala en publiant un recueil de biographies de sultans à l'usage des écoles (Viographikê,. Historia tôn Sultanbn tis Othomanikis ...
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