Diomidis Anastasiou Kyriakos () (1811,

Spetses Spetses ( el, Σπέτσες, grc, Πιτυούσσα "Pityussa", Arvanitika: Πετσε̱) is an upscale affluent island in Attica, Greece. It is included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolis ...

– 1869,

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) was a Greek author, politician and

Prime Minister of Greece The prime minister of the Hellenic Republic ( el, Πρωθυπουργός της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας, Prothypourgós tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), colloquially referred to as the prime minister of Greece ( el, Πρωθυ� ...

Biography

Kiriakos was born in 1811 on the island of

to family of

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origin. He was the younger brother of Ioannis Kyriakos, a vice-admiral who was killed in the siege of Messolonghi. He studied law at the universities of

and Paris. In 1835, Kyriakos became public prosecutor of the Court of First Instance. In 1843, he helped draft the

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. In 1851, he became professor of constitutional law and, in 1862, a member of the committee to draft a new

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. The following year, Kyriakos became Minister of Religion and Education and, between April and May 1863, he became the Prime Minister of Greece. Kyriakos authored several books on law and history. He died in Italy in 1869.

References

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