Callimachi family
TheHouse of Callimachi,Calimachi,orKallimachi(Greek:Καλλιμάχη,Russian:Каллимаки,Turkish:Kalimakizade;originallyCalmașulorCălmașu), was aPhanariotefamily of mixedMoldavian(Romanian) andGreekorigins, whose members occupied many important positions inMoldavia,Romaniaand theOttoman Empire.
History
[edit]Originating in theboyardomofOrhei County,it gave Moldavia fourreigning princes.The family remains present today in modernRomania.
Notable members
[edit]Agnatic
[edit]- Vasile Călmașul,Moldavian landowner
- Teodor Calmășul,Moldavian boyar
- Ioan Teodor Callimachi,Prince of Moldavia (1758–1761)
- Gavriil Callimachi,Orthodox monk, Metropolitan of Moldavia (?–1786)
- Grigore Callimachi,Prince of Moldavia (1761–1764; 1767–1769)
- Alexandru Callimachi,Prince of Moldavia (1795–1799)
- Scarlat Callimachi,Prince of Moldavia (1806;de jure1807–1810; 1812–1819); Prince of Wallachia (de jure1821)
- Alexandros Kallimachis,Ottoman diplomat, Governor of Samos (1850–1854)
- Scarlat Callimachi,Romanian communist activist (1896–1975)
Matrilineal
[edit]- Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah,Romanian cabinet minister and scholar
- Rukmini Callimachi,American journalist
By marriage
[edit]- Dida Solomon-Callimachi,Romanian actress and writer
References
[edit]- ^Rizo Rangabé, Eugène (1892).Livre d'or de la noblesse phanariote en Grèce, en Roumanie, en Russie et en Turquie / par un phanariote(in French). S. C. Vlastos. p. 11.
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