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DIMITRI KALERGIS (DEMETRIOS) (1803-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 640 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KALERGIS (DEMETRIOS) (1803-1867)  , Greek statesman, was a Cretan by birth, studied
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medicine at Paris and on the outbreak of the War of Greek Independence went to the Morea and joined the insurgents . He fought under Karaiskakis, was taken prisoner by the
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Turks before Athens and mulcted of an ear; later he acted as aide de camp to the French philhellene Colonel Fabvier and to Count
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Capo d'Istria, president of
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Greece . In 1832 he was promoted
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lieutenant-colonel . In 1843, as
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commander of a cavalry division, he was the prime mover in the insurrection which forced King
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Otto to dismiss his Bavarian ministers . He was appointed military commandant of Athens and aide de camp to the king, but after the fall of the Mavrocordato
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ministry in 1845 was forced to go into exile, and spent several years in
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London, where he became an intimate of Prince Louis
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Napoleon . In 1848 he made an abortive descent on the Greek coast, in the hope of revolutionizing the
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kingdom . He was captured, but soon released and, after a stay in the island of Zante; went to Paris (1853) . At the instance of the Western Powers he was recalled on the outbreak of the
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Crimean War and appointed minister of war in the reconstituted Mavrocordato
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cabinet (18J4) . He was, however, disliked by King Otto and his consort, and in
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October 1855 was forced to resign . In 1861 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary in Paris, in which capacity he took an important
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part in the negotiations which followed the fall of the Bavarian dynasty and led to the accession of Prince George of Denmark to the Greek
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throne .

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