Ioannis Trikoupis (1750 in

Missolonghi Missolonghi or Messolonghi ( el, Μεσολόγγι, ) is a municipality of 34,416 people (according to the 2011 census) in western Greece. The town is the capital of Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit, and the seat of the municipality of Iera Polis ...

– 30 July 1824 in Missolonghi) was a

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politician of the

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Biography

Ioannis Trikoupis was born in 1750 in

and was the eldest son of the seaman and local notable Matthaios Trikoupis.Γούδας, Αναστάσιος Ν., 1875, Βίοι Παράλληλοι των επί της αναγεννήσεως της Ελλάδος διαπρεψάντων ανδρών, vol.7 (Ζ'), Εν Αθήναις: Εκ του Τυπογραφείου Μ. Π. Περίδου, p. 166.Χαρίλαος Τρικούπης: Έκθεση ιστορικών κειμηλίων της οικογένειας Τρικούπη, Βουλή των Ελλήνων. Αθήνα: Βουλή των Ελλήνων. Μάρτιος 2012. p. 9.
/ref> He attended his first general courses in his hometown, where his teacher was the famous scholar Panagiotis Palamas. Later, he studied philosophy in

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, where he also learned

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. After his studies he settled in

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to find work. There he met the bishop of Old Patras at the time,

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and in 1771 he became his secretary. In 1780, when Gabriel was elected

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, he followed him there. In 1785 he returned to Missolonghi due to the desire of his father, who was the chief elder of the city. He married Alexandra Palama and together they had seven sons ( Spyridon, Anastasios, Konstantinos, Nikolaos, Manthos, Apostolos and Themistoklis) and two daughters (Eirini and Maria). After his father’s death, he was elected chief elder of Missolonghi in his stead, a position he held for eight years, in part because he managed to gain the favour of Ali Pasha.Goudas, Anastasios N., 1875, p.167-168. He was initiated into the

Filiki Eteria Filiki Eteria or Society of Friends ( el, Φιλικὴ Ἑταιρεία ''or'' ) was a secret organization founded in 1814 in Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek ...

, a secret organization whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek state, by Bishop Porphyrios of Arta. Because of that, when the

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broke out in 1821, he was elected president of the communal council of Missolonghi. During the first siege of Missolonghi in 1822, Ioannis Trikoupis contributed to the defence of the city. On 9 November 1822, when the

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was established, he was elected senator and later a member of the board of the Directorate General and the three-member committee that worked as temporary substitutes for

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during his absence. Ioannis Trikoupis died on 30 July 1824 in Missolonghi. According to the announcement of his death in the newspaper '' Ellinika Chronika'' of Johann Jakob Meyer, he died of

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.Goudas, Anastasios N., 1875, p. 169.

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Biography

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