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Education and career

Originally a provincial jurist, he became the director of foreign correspondence of

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from 1873 to 1883 with Alexandros Mavrogenis. The Ottoman government dismissed him from his post. Sinan Kuneralp, author of "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States of America, 1867-1917," argued that his relationship with

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was the "more likely" reason why he was fired, while the official accusation was that Aristarchis misused money from a weapons deal. After 1883 he lived in

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where he worked as advisor to

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, where he died.

Works

He compiled '' Législation ottomane, ou Recueil des lois, règlements, ordonnances, traités, capitulations et autres documents officiels de l´Empire ottoman'', one of the first collections of the Ottoman Law in 7 volumes in French language,Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 2, Number 154, 21 August 1876 — THE FOREIGN WAR. RTICLE">Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 2, Number 154, 21 August 1876 — THE FOREIGN WAR. [ARTICLE
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Personal life

Strauss wrote that Aristarchis was a "popular figure" in the United States, and Kuneralp wrote that in his youth he "was a dashing young bachelor known for his many feminine conquests." He appeared as the main character in a novel by Henry James.

Works

* Aristarchi Gregoire bey (1873, 1874, 1878, 1881) ''Legislation ottomane, ou Recueil des lois, reglements, ordonnances, traités, capitulations et autres documents officiels de l'Émpire Ottoman''. Constantinople: Imprimerie, Frères Nicolaides (in French) **

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