Agamemnon Schliemann ( el, Αγαμέμνων Σλήμαν, 16 March 1878 – 1954) was the Greek

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

to the United States in 1914.

Biography

Agamemnon Schliemann was born on 16 March 1878 in Paris, France to German-American businessman and amateur archaeologist

Heinrich Schliemann Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and pioneer in the field of archaeology. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeologi ...

and his Greek wife

Sophia Schliemann Sophia Schliemann, born Sophia Engastromenou (Σοφία Εγκαστρωμένου) (12 January 1852 - 27 October 1932) was the Greek second wife of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. She is known for posing for a photo while draped in gold je ...

. He was baptized by his father himself, although he was reluctant about it. He was educated in France and Germany. During a trip to the United States in 1900, he established his American citizenship. In 1902, at the age of 24 years, he married 16-year-old Nadine de Bornemann, daughter of a wealthy businessman in a civil ceremony in New York City, which made it onto the '' New York Times'' front page (which read "Eloped from France, Made to marry here"). She was the Athens-born daughter of a wealthy Danish businessman. In 1902 and 1903, he lived in the U.S. Returning to Thessaly, Greece, where he owned a large amount of land, he became the deputy of

Larissa Larissa (; el, Λάρισα, , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 144,651 according to the 2011 census. It is also capital of the Larissa regiona ...

in the

Hellenic parliament The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule (ancient Greece), Boule of the Greeks, Hellenes, label=none), also kno ...

. In January 1914, Schliemann was appointed Greek

to the United States in Washington D.C. in succession to L. A. Coromilas.

References

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