Ioannis Filimon was a 19th-century Greek historian, militant journalist, and publisher of the newspaper Aion for more than fifteen years, from 1838 to 1854.
16 Facts About Ioannis Filimon
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Ioannis Filimon participated actively in the Greek Revolution of 1821.
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Ioannis Filimon's work entitled "Essay on the history of Filiki Eteria" was first published in 1834, a fact that makes Filimon one of the first historians of modern Greece.
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Ioannis Filimon was born in Constantinople in 1798 or 1799.
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Ioannis Filimon's father came from Thrace or Cyprus and was a painter in Constantinople.
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Ioannis Filimon studied at the Great School of the Nation and learned typography while working at the Patriarchal Printing Office typesetting the first volume of the Ark of the Greek Language.
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In October 1821, when he arrived in the Peloponnese from Constantinople, Ioannis Filimon served as the secretary of Dimitrios Ypsilantis, with whose family he had been connected for a long time.
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Ioannis Filimon fell ill with typhus and was unable to accompany Ypsilantis in his campaign to Eastern Greece in 1822.
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Ioannis Filimon worked as a secretary in the government of Georgios Kountouriotis and in the spring of 1825 as a secretary of Petrobey Mavromichalis.
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Ioannis Filimon returned to the service of Dimitrios Ypsilantis as the secretary of his staff until 1829.
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In 1831, unrest against governor of the Greek State, Ioannis Kapodistrias, affected Filimon as well.
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Kanellos Deligiannis wrote that at first Ioannis Filimon was willing to collaborate with Petrobey Mavromichalis for the best organization of the opposition against the Ottomans in Mani.
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Ioannis Filimon agreed with Kapodistrias that in order for the parliamentary regime to function properly, Greece's landless citizens should receive land by the government.
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Ioannis Filimon had hemiplegia since 1870, and died in Athens on January 1,1874.
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Ioannis Filimon was buried the next day and was awarded the honors of a Major of the Royal Phalanx.
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Ioannis Filimon was one of the first historians to collect and publish Ottoman documents, explicitly recognizing the importance of Turkish archives for writing the history of the Greek Revolution.