Callimachi family
The House of Callimachi, Calimachi, or Kallimachi (Greek: Καλλιμάχη, Russian: Каллимаки, Turkish: Kalimakizade; originally Calmașul or Călmașu), was a Phanariote family of mixed Moldavian (Romanian) and Greek origins, whose members occupied many important positions in Moldavia, Romania and the Ottoman Empire.
History
[edit]Originating in the boyardom of Orhei County, it gave Moldavia four reigning princes. The family remains present today in modern Romania.
Notable members
[edit]Agnatic
[edit]- Vasile Călmașul, Moldavian landowner
- Teodor Calmășul, Moldavian boyar
- Ioan Teodor Callimachi, Prince of Moldavia (1758–1761)
- Gavriil Callimachi, Orthodox monk, Metropolitan of Moldavia (?–1786)
- Grigore Callimachi, Prince of Moldavia (1761–1764; 1767–1769)
- Alexandru Callimachi, Prince of Moldavia (1795–1799)
- Scarlat Callimachi, Prince of Moldavia (1806; de jure 1807–1810; 1812–1819); Prince of Wallachia (de jure 1821)
- Alexandros Kallimachis, Ottoman diplomat, Governor of Samos (1850–1854)
- Scarlat Callimachi, Romanian communist activist (1896–1975)
Matrilineal
[edit]- Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah, Romanian cabinet minister and scholar
- Rukmini Callimachi, American journalist
By marriage
[edit]- Dida Solomon-Callimachi, Romanian actress and writer
References
[edit]- ^ Rizo Rangabé, Eugène (1892). Livre d'or de la noblesse phanariote en Grèce, en Roumanie, en Russie et en Turquie / par un phanariote (in French). S. C. Vlastos. p. 11.
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