PLANS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A «SOCIETY OF GREEKS LIVING IN GÖTTINGEN» («ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΓΟΤΤΙΓΓΗ ΓΡΑΙΚΩΝ») ON THE EVE OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION
Abstract
Among the uncatalogued papers of the K. Asopios’ Archive in the National Library of Greece I ran into three texts lying in three different files, texts constituting parts of three drafts concerning the statute(s) of one or more Greek societies. Two of them were written by Asopios himself in Göttingen where he was studying and only one bears the date October 2, 1819. Even though the connection between these drafts is not clear, it seems that they express the wish of some people, at least of Asopios, for the establishment of a society following the model either of Filomousos Hetaireia of Athens and Vienna or of student fraternities in
the German universities of the time, or both. Although thirteen students at the university in Göttingen around 1819 were Greeks, there is no evidence so far that a society with these characteristics actually existed there. The fact that the discourse of these texts refers to patriotic goals places these wishes –or actual attempts– in the context of the advanced pre-revolutionary Greek movements.
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MATTHAIOU, S. (2024). PLANS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A «SOCIETY OF GREEKS LIVING IN GÖTTINGEN» («ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΓΟΤΤΙΓΓΗ ΓΡΑΙΚΩΝ») ON THE EVE OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION. Mnimon, 36(36), 119–146. https://doi.org/10.12681/mnimon.36841
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