Ethnicity Greek | ||
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Born 1855Fertek, Konya Vilayet, Ottoman Empire ( 1855 ) | ||
Avraam Vaporidis (Greek: Αβραάμ Βαπορίδης (Εφέντη); Turkish: Avraam Vaporidi Efendi) also known as Avraam Efendi (1855, Fertek – 1911, Constantinople), was a distinguished Greek author, scholar and historian. He was a high-ranking dignitary of late Ottoman Empire who also served as a senior Government official and was an inspector (Matbaalar Müfettişi) of the Court of Imperial Ministry of Education.
Biography
Avraam Vaporidis was born in 1855 to a Cappadocian Greek family in the city of Fertek, Niğde province in Central Anatolia. Vaporidis worked at the ministry of education and published biographies of the Ottoman Sultans and the history of the Ottoman Empire for publications in Greek schools in the late nineteenth century.
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