Alexander Karatheodori Pasha

Alexander Carathéodory Pasha (* 1833, † 1906) was an Ottoman diplomat of Greek origin ( can be found in the literature, various spellings of the name: Karatheodori, Caratheodory, Carathéodori ).

Carathéodory Pasha was Phanariot (after Constantinople district of Phanar, the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel since the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453; Greeks from that district were from the 17th century, first translation, then represented in the diplomatic service of the Ottoman Empire, were very influential in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as Ottoman governor of the Danubian Principalities - until the Greek Revolution of 1821 ).

Together with Mehmed Ali Pasha, he was chief negotiator ( in the French protocols called Premier Plénipotentiaire ) of the Ottoman government ( Sublime Porte ) at the Berlin Congress of 1878, by which the Balkan crisis should be settled.

According to the memoirs of Joseph Maria von Radowitz ( member of the German delegation ) "won [ it ] by his tactful and intelligent attitude the sympathy of all congressmen, including those of Otto von Bismarck, who else for the Turks, who all difficult with their indecisiveness, did not have much left. " His son and great-nephew, Constantin Carathéodory (1873-1950) was a famous, highly valued by colleagues mathematician. He himself had important mathematical writings translated from Arabic and had a great mathematical library.