"Ioannis Karageorgiadis"

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Ioannis Karageorgiadis was a Greek Cypriot physician, scholar and writer. He was Mayor of Limassol in 1885–1887 and 1896–1808.

Biographical data

Ioannis Karageorgiadis was born in Nicosia in 1842. He studied medicine at the University of Athens, where he was awarded a doctorate. Continue with post-education in Paris. In 1869 he returned to Cyprus, starting practicing the medical profession. In addition, they were among the first pharmacists in Cyprus.

He was a multilingual and encyclopedic physician philosopher. At European medical conferences of leading scientists they read his announcements.

He was the founder of the Greek Masonry in Cyprus, one of the founders in Limassol of the first "Zenon" gallery (1893) and brought the tectonic rank of 33rd. He was a member of the High Technical Council of Greece for years, as well as a great inspector of the Cypriot galleries of those in the Great East of Greece.

John Karageorgiadis co-authored medical studies. He was also a scholar and poet. In addition, he dealt with translations of poems of European poetry (such as John Milton's "The Lost Paradise", as well as drama. He was one of the first Cypriot playwrights. He wrote the dramas "Cyprus slave" and "Justinian and Theodora" (1898) and the comedy "Atlantis" (1923), which are among the first works of Cypriot writers to be presented on stage in the first steps of the younger Cypriot theatre, during the first period of Angloocracy.

He married from Corinthian German (bavarian) origins Arsakiada Helen Erman Evert (sister of Miltiades Evert, grandfather of Miltiades Evert), who served as director of the Limassol Parthenatry. Together they had two sons, George and Erman, who studied in France where they settled permanently. Herman Karageriadis was an important doctor and scholar in France, best known as Hermann Cara. He was also a volunteer doctor in the Greek army in 1897 and 1912-1913. In addition, for years he was an unpaid Consul of Greece in Vichy.

Helen Erman Evert died at the age of 33. John Karageorgiadis then served as a second marriage, with the Limassol Iphigeni Nicholas Sivitanidis and adopted a girl, Alexandra later Kirzis.

Ioannis Karageorgiadis was awarded the Silver Cross of Knights of the Order of the Savior (Greece).

Municipalities Ioannis Karageorgiadis
Ioannis Karageorgiadis took over Mayor Limassol in 1885. He remained in this position until 1887. He was mayor and second term, in 1896–108.

In the first term of Ioannis Karageorgiadis the first measures were taken to protect the city's beach with the construction of iron languages along it, in order to protect the coastal front from erosion and burrows. In addition, the first municipal regulations were drawn up and implemented.

The second term of John Karageorgiadis addressed the water problem