Stéphanos Xénos (1821-1894)

Son of a merchant family from Smyrna, Xenos should have made a career in trade or in the Greek army. In his life, he was entrepreneur, writer, shipowner, industrial, bold and innovative, he wanted to open a new world and to renovate Greece I order to make it stronger. But, impatient as he is, he get...

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Main Author: Zéphyros Kafkalidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d'Études Balkaniques 2017-07-01
Series:Cahiers Balkaniques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/8674
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description Son of a merchant family from Smyrna, Xenos should have made a career in trade or in the Greek army. In his life, he was entrepreneur, writer, shipowner, industrial, bold and innovative, he wanted to open a new world and to renovate Greece I order to make it stronger. But, impatient as he is, he gets angry with everybody, he mixes the deep feeling, here patriotism, with business and politics, that’s his specificity, his greatness but also his loss, because money, politics and feelings rarely collaborate.
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Stéphanos Xénos (1821-1894)
Cahiers Balkaniques
Greece
History
Nineteenth century
Xenos Stephanos (1821-1894)
diaspora
shipowner
title Stéphanos Xénos (1821-1894)
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title_fullStr Stéphanos Xénos (1821-1894)
title_full_unstemmed Stéphanos Xénos (1821-1894)
title_short Stéphanos Xénos (1821-1894)
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topic Greece
History
Nineteenth century
Xenos Stephanos (1821-1894)
diaspora
shipowner
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