Philhellenes’ Archive

International Women's Day 2023: Tribute to Juliette Récamier

The SHP and the Museum of Philhellenism both pay tribute to the great French Philhellene Juliette Récamier. French-born Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélade Récamier (1777-1849) hosted one of Paris's most influential philosophical salons,…

8 March 2022: international women's day

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SHP and the Philhellenism Museum honor the great American Philhellene Julia Ward Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910). Famous pacifist, feminist, abolitionist, human rights activist, and poet. She wrote the poem Battle Hymn of the Republic. Wife…

The Philhellene doctor Louis-André Gosse and the epidemic of 1828

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by Georgios Argyrakos European philhellenism, as a historical phenomenon, has a "persistent" character, because it appears since Roman times and continues in various forms in Byzantium, in Medieval Europe, in the Orthodox Slavic world,…

William Townsend Washington, an American Philhellene in the Greek Revolution

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William Townsend Washington (1802-1827) was an American Philhellene from the State of Virginia in the United States of America. He was a Lieutenant in the US Army (4th Artillery Regiment). After attending the West Point…

Gramsi Michele, Italian Philhellene, officer of the Greek Army during the Greek war for independence

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Gramsi Michele (1786-1873). Italian Philhellene form Naples. Artillery captain of the Army of the Kingdom of Naples. He reached Kalamata on May 1, 1821 and joined the first regular military unit, under the command of…

Franciszek Mierzewski, Polish Philhellene, hero of the Greek Revolution

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Franciszek Mierzewski or Mierzejewski (1786 - 1822), was a Polish officer from Warsaw, who served in the French Army. In 1807, after the Treaty of Tilsit, which led to the liberation of Poland from the Russians and…

De Lannoy Augustin, Belgian Philhellene, volunteer fighter, heroic figure of the Greek war of independence

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De Lannoy, (Guillaume) Augustin (also written as Delannoy, Delannoi, Delanoi) was a volunteer from Brussels, Belgium. According to some sources (i.e. Fornezy) a certain "Delannoi" was reported to be part of the Battalion…

Carl Rottmann, German Philhellene landscape painter of Greece

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Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann was a famous German landscape painter and a beloved painter of the Bavarian king Ludwig I (1786 - 1868). He was famous for his mythical-heroic themes in his painting. Rottmann's greatest artistic…

Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, American Philhellene, physician, educator, philanthropist, benefactor of Greece

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Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876) was a prominent American Philhellene, physician, lawyer, pioneer educator, and philanthropist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a wealthy family of merchants. His grandfather…

Ludwig Lange (1808-1868): German Philhellene architect and painter

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Ludwig Lange, was a German architect and designer, born on March 22, 1808 in Darmstadt. His father, Christian Friedrich (1759–1840), was a clerk of the Court. Ludwig had two younger brothers with whom he cooperated.…

Ferdinand Stademann (1791 - 1873): German Philhellene painter, creator of the "Panorama of Athens"

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German designer and lithographer, Wilhelm August Ferdinand Stademann, was born in Berlin in 1791 and died in Munich in 1873. He lived in Bavaria from 1810 onwards. Between 1832 and 1836 he was in Greece as an envoy of…

Othon, first King of Greece, continued the Philhellenic policy of his father, Ludwig I

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Othon (1815-1867), was a Bavarian prince and the first king of Greece, in 1833-1862. He was the only king who held the title "King of Greece", since the following ones, from George I onwards, bore the title "King of the…

Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch, passionate advocate of the Greek rights, founder of German Philhellenism and "Praeceptor Bavariae", Teacher of Bavaria

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"[…] Es lebe Ihre Heimat, die auch für mich die schonste Heimat is, die Heimat meiner Bildung und meiner Ideale!" "Long live your Homeland, which for me is the most beautiful homeland, the homeland of my Education and…

Percy Bysshe Shelley, romantic English lyricist and prophet of the Greek Revolution

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"We are all Greeks" The well - known phrase which motivated the British and European public opinion of 1821 in favor of the Greek War for Independence, came from a delicate, thoughtful and unrecognized poet…

Leo Von Klenze (1784 - 1864), German classicist architect and painter, diplomatic talent, he envisioned “Athens on the Isar”

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The archaeologist and painter Leo von Klenze (1784-1864) was born on February 29 as the third child of a nine-member family in Boklah, near the village of Schladen am Harz in Lower Saxony. At the age of 16 he began studying…

Latest Posts

May 31, 2023: Presentation of the book “The adventures of Daniel Elster” at the Philhellenism Museum24 May 2023 - 2:45 pm
The adventures of the Philhellene physician volunteer in Greece in 1822, Daniel Elster are published for the first time in Greece, edited by the historian and philologist Regina Manousakis and the editor of the Philhellenic Library series Kostas Papailiou. This is the fifth volume in Parisianou Publications’ “Philhellenic Library” series, and it will be […]
May 30, 2023: Event for the premiere of the film “The Philhellenes”28 April 2023 - 4:46 pm
The Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism, in collaboration with the Philhellenism Museum and the Athens City Festival organized by the City of Athens, is organizing an event aiming to include in the cultural map of the capital the new Monument of Philhellenes, which will be placed in the heart of Athens, at Vasilissis Sofias Avenue, […]