Argyrios Vouzas (Greek: Αργύριος Βούζας) was a Greek revolutionary and doctor of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Argyrios Vouzas
Native name
Αργύριος Βούζας
Bornc. 1857
Kastoria, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Allegiance
Service/branch
Battles/warsMacedonian Struggle
Balkan Wars North Epirote Struggle
Alma materUniversity of Athens
Other workDoctor
member of the New Filiki Etaireia

Biography edit

Vouzas was born in about 1857 in Kastoria, then Ottoman Empire (now Greece).[1] He studied at a Greek school of Kastoria, at a Monastir high school and later graduated in medicine from the University of Athens.[1] He became a doctor, acting in the areas of Kastoria and Florina.[1] He soon became a member of the so-called "New Filiki Etaireia", established by Anastasios Pichion in 1867.[2] His actions were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, which lead to his imprisonment in Monastir.[1] When he was released, he assisted the Macedonian Committee as a military doctor. During the First Balkan War he was appointed as a director of a 150-bed military hospital. Shortly after, in 1914, he volunteered for the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Λόγιοι και επιστήμονες της Τουρκοκρατίας (μέρος 4ο)". 3 June 2014.
  2. ^ Vakalopoulos, Konstantinos (1983). Ho voreios hellēnismos kata tēn prōimē phasē tou Makedōnikou agōna, 1878-1894. Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 406.
  3. ^ Dafoulis, Pavlos Ach. (2007). Η υγειονομική περίθαλψη κατά την ένοπλο φάση του Μακεδονικού Αγώνος (1904-1908) και η δράση των εφέδρων και μονίμων αξιωματικών του υγειονομικού που συμμετείχαν στον Μακεδονικό Αγώνα (PDF). University of Ioannina. p. 212.