Yannis Makriyannis
Politician, Military Person
1797 – 1864
Who was Yannis Makriyannis?
General Yannis Makriyannis was a Greek merchant, military officer, politician and author, best known today for his Memoirs. Starting from humble origins, he joined the Greek struggle for independence, achieving the rank of general and leading his men to notable victories. Following Greek independence, he had a tumultuous public career, playing a prominent part in the granting of the first Constitution of the Kingdom of Greece and later being sentenced to death and pardoned.
Despite his important contributions to the political life of the early Greek state, general Makriyannis is mostly remembered for his Memoirs. Aside from being a source of historical and cultural information about the period, this work has also been called a "monument of Modern Greek literature", as it is written in pure Demotic Greek. Indeed, its literary quality led Nobel laureate Giorgos Seferis to call Makriyannis one of the greatest masters of Modern Greek prose.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1797
Doris - Also known as
- Ioannis Triantaphyllos
- Parents
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Greece
- Profession
- Lived in
- Central Greece
- Died
- 1864
Athens
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on July 23, 2013
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