Nikolaos Petrou Deligiannis (Greek : Νικόλαος Πέτρου Δηλιγιάννης, 1845,

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

– 5 January 1910,

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) was the caretaker Prime Minister of Greece from January to June 1895.

Biography

Born in Athens, he is the son of , three-time foreign minister of Greece (1841, 1849 & 1863) and spawn of the powerful

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from Langadia, Arcadia. He studied law at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

and made his career in the diplomatic corps. He was first appointed secretary of the Greek embassy in

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and then served as ambassador in Belgrade (1881–1885),

(1885–1893) and in

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. He returned to Athens and after a while he left

again, where he was appointed Ambassador of Greece. In 1899 he was a representative of Greece in the

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. He was also a founding member of the

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. In January 1895, after the fall of the seventh and last of

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, he was appointed by

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as caretaker Prime Minister. The , composed of extra-parliamentary figures, in which he also held the

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and Interior portfolios, conducted

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which took place in May of the same year. They were won by Theodore Deligiannis, a

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of his father, who accessed as Prime Minister on May 31, 1895. Nikolaos Deligiannis returned to the diplomatic service as ambassador in Paris, where he died and was buried in the cemetery of Boulogne.

Family

His wife was Amalia , sister of N. Baltatzi, lady-in-waiting, and Elena (Elisa) Baltatzi, wife of Alexandros , ambassador in Belgrade. They had three children. Their daughter and a son, officer in the

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, had already died when Nikolaos Deligiannis died. The third child, Petros Deligiannis, was also a diplomat, secretary of the embassy in Washington, and Consul at the embassy in Paris in 1890. He is not to be confused with his cousin (1831–1890), son of and brother of Prime Minister Theodore Deligiannis, who served as President of the

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(''Areopagus'') in 1885–1890.

References

1845 births 1910 deaths 19th-century prime ministers of Greece Foreign ministers of Greece Politicians from Athens Prime Ministers of Greece Ambassadors of Greece to France Ambassadors of Greece to Serbia Ambassadors of Greece to Spain National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni {{Greece-politician-stub