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Grigorios Zalykis (Greek:Γρηγόριος Ζαλύκης;French:Grégoire Zalykis) (1785 – 4 October 1827) was aGreek scholar, writer and diplomat. He was the founder of the "Greek-speaking Hotel" (Hellenoglosso Xenodocheio orΕλληνόγλωσσο Ξενοδοχείο), a secret organization established in Paris in 1809 to assist Greeks againstOttoman rule.

Grigorios Zalykis was ofAromanian origin.^[1][2] He was born inThessaloniki in 1785. His father was Georgios Zalykis, and sometimes he was given the usual Ottoman suffix of "oglu", as inZalykoglous (Zalykis' son). He attended school in his hometown and then went toBucharest to study with the academicLampros Fotiadis. With Fotiadis, Grigorios Zalykis studied Greek andLatin literature.

In 1802, the potentate ofWalachia,Skarlatos Kallimachis, sent him to Paris for political issues. He settled there and becameMarie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier's secretary, helping him to publish his bookVoyage pittoresque en Grèce. Zalykis wrote two dictionaries, one inFrench and one in modern Greek.

Zalykis was the founder of the "Greek-speaking Hotel", Hellenoglosso Xenodocheio, a secret organization established in 1809. It was a precursor ofFiliki Eteria and sought to mobilize the Greeks against Ottoman rule.

In 1816, Zalykis became the first secretary of the Ottoman embassy in Paris. He worked there until 1820, then went back to Bucharest. After the uprising of theGreek War of Independence, he went toTransilvania and then toBessarabia where he wrote the bookDialogue about the Greek revolution in 1822.

Zalykis went toSaint Petersburg, where he met emperorAlexander I of Russia and took important financial help. Going back to Paris, he developed a brain fever and died on 4 October 1827.

• Dictionary of French Language, Paris, 1809 (republished in 1815 inVenice with the supervision of Vlantis Spyridonos).
• About the Social Treat,Jean-Jacques Rousseau's book, translated by Grigorios Zalykis and published with comments by Konstantinos Nikolopoulos. Funded by Zalykis' widow, Paris 1828.
• Dialogue about the Greek Revolution, edited with comments by Agathon Lakedaemonios, Paris 1828.

• Konstantinos Spathas,Modern Greek Literature. Biographies of Famous Greek Scholars (1453-1821), Athens 1868, p. 685

• Constantinidi-Bibicou H., 1953.Les Origines du philhellénisme français, L’Hellénisme Contemporain, VII/3, pp. 248–265
• Tziatzios E.St., 1939.Le Macédonien Grégoire Zalikis et la société révolutionnaire “Hôtel Hellénophone”, III/1, pp. 68–76, et III/2-3, pp. 89–101.

• 1785 births
• 1827 deaths
• Greek people of Aromanian descent
• Writers from Thessaloniki
• Greek Macedonians
• 18th-century Greek writers
• 19th-century Greek writers
• Expatriates from the Ottoman Empire in France
• Writers from the Ottoman Empire

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