Michael Vasileiou () was a
Greek
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19th-century merchant and financier, born in
Gjirokastër
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,
Ottoman Empire
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(now in
Albania
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) as the brother of
Alexandros Vasileiou, merchant, scholar and student of
Adamantios Korais
Adamantios Korais or Koraïs ( ; ; ; 27 April 17486 April 1833) was a Greek scholar credited with laying the foundations of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War ...
, a major figure of the
Greek Enlightenment
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movement.
Vasileiou traded in the capital,
Constantinople
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(now
Istanbul
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), where he lived most of his life and worked among the more successful
Ottoman Greeks
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. He funded several issues of the ''
Hermes o Logios
''Hermes o Logios'', also known as ''Logios Ermis'' (, "Hermes the Scholar") was a Greek periodical printed in Vienna, Austria, from 1811 to 1821. It is regarded as the most significant and longest running periodical of the period prior to the o ...
'' (), a literary newspaper published in
Vienna
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, as well the Greek translation of ''French codex for merchants'' (, in 1817).
Two of Vasileiou's daughters (Efrosyni and Smaragda) married Mellas family members who were also financially strong in the Greek community.
[Sicilianos Demetrios]
Old and new Athens
Putnam, 1960.
References
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Year of death missing
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