Nikolakis Deligiannis

Nikolaos (Nikolakis) Deligiannis (1795–1877) was a Greek military officer, politician and fighter in the Greek War of Independence of 1821.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Langadia, Arcadia, and was the last child of the powerful Moragian Ioannis Deligiannis and Smyrnean Maria Petropoulou. He was quite educated as he studied at the "Academy" of Lagadia. He became a brother-in-law of Theodoros Kolokotronis.

He was engaged to the daughter of a notable of Karytaina, Koula, but to avoid marriage, he fled, after 1814, to Constantinople. where his brother Anagnostis was living.

With the outbreak of the Greek Revolution in 1821, he went down with his brother to the Peloponnese where he fought. During the Civil War, he was imprisoned in Hydra along with his brothers Kanellos, Anagnostis and Dimitrakis.

After the revolution, he settled in Corinth. He took part in the Fourth National Assembly, with the name as it appears in the minutes as N. Deligiannis and as a delegate of Karytaina in 1831 and in the Fifth National Assembly at Nafplion in 1832 with the name N. Diligiannis.

He was a major and colonel of the Greek Royal Phalanx and served as prefect of Euboea in 1845, member of parliament for Argolis and Corinth in the elections of 1854, mayor of Corinth in 1859 and senator in 1861 in the Greek Senate. In 1862 he became a delegate again in the Second National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens [el], this time as a delegate of Corinth.

He died in 1877.

Family

He married Aikaterini Notara and had two children, Ioannis, later a member of parliament for Corinth and President of the Parliament, and Chariklia.

References

^ Understanding the Greek Revolution (1821–1832): New Approaches in Social, Political and Cultural History. BRILL. 2024-07-01. ISBN 978-90-04-70363-6.

[1] Understanding the Greek Revolution (1821–1832): New Approaches in Social, Political and Cultural History. BRILL. 2024-07-01. ISBN 978-90-04-70363-6.

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