Aristeidis Dosios

Aristides Dossios (Greek Αριστείδης Δόσιος, * 1844 in Athens, † April 1881 ) was a Greek economist.

Life

Even as a fifteen- year-old student to Aristides Dossios the anti-monarchical movement in Greece closed at Golden youth and wrote 1859-1861 regularly in the newspaper Το Μέλλον της Πατρίδος ( The future of the motherland ). On September 6, 1861, he committed an assassination attempt on Queen Amalie of Greece, which survived this. On 10 January 1862 he was sentenced by the Court of Cassation Athenians to death and pardoned by the Greek King Otto at the request of Amalie to life imprisonment. After the bloodless overthrow of Otto, he was released from detention on 10 October 1862.

For the study, he went to Munich, Zurich and Italy. In the summer semester 1863 he enrolled at the University of Zurich Law. Here he joined the Corps Rhenaniastraße. He was the last Zweitchargierte Rhenanias before suspension at ETH. In Zurich he remained until August 21, 1865. During this period he also needs science classes with Rudolf Clausius have had since he, his revered teacher Prof. Clausius, a copy of his PhD thesis dedicated to him. On 15 July 1867 he was at the University of Zurich with a dissertation on a national economic issue as Dr. iur. doctorate.

After teaching at the Sorbonne for Kameral and political science, he returned to Greece, where he was director of the Marine Bank was founded in 1870 ο Αρχάγγελος ( Archangel ). He was a member of the American Association of Social Science. After he had gained the insight that despite the events 1862-1864 the political situation in Greece had not changed, he fell ill with depression. When he had to have surgery on a non -healing skull injury he had suffered torture during his detention undergo, he was diagnosed with dementia and died in a mental hospital.

Family

Aristides Dossios came from a wealthy and educated family. His father Konstantin Dossios (1810-1871) was a lawyer and politician in Greece after studying law in Munich and Heidelberg and of Social Sciences in Vienna. In 1843 he was a delegate to the Constituent National Assembly, as well as Greek in the Greek National Assembly in 1862 after the overthrow of King Otto. From February to March 1863 he was a minister for the church. In the same year he became a member of the Constituent Assembly to the Constitution of 1864.

His mother was the linguist Catherine Dossios born Mavrokordatos ( 1820-1856 ). They translate George Gordon Byron's The Giaour into Greek.

His younger brother Leander Dossios (1846-1883) studied at the University of Zurich chemistry. He also joined the Corps Rhenaniastraße. In 1866 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on phil Theoretical and empirical contributions to the Constitution of the glycols and their corresponding acids to the Dr.. Later he was professor of chemistry in Athens.

His younger sister Catherine (1856-1935) married in 1874 the German archaeologist and Ambassador Otto Lüders.

Writings

• Les limites de l' économie politique. Paris and Berlin, 1867 (copy with handwritten dedication to his teacher Rudolf Clausius is located in the library of Columbia College, New York City, digitized )
• Κρίσεις και σκέψεις περί της ελληνικής ατμοπλοίας, Μεταλλευτική Εταιρεία
• Ο Αρχάγγελος, 1877.