Argyrios Vouzas

Argyrios Vouzas (Greek: Αργύριος Βούζας) was a Greek revolutionary and doctor of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biography

Vouzas was born in 1857 in Kastoria, then Ottoman Empire (now Greece).[1] He studied at a Greek school of Kastoria, at a Monastir high school and later graduated in medicine from the University of Athens.[1] He became a doctor, acting in the areas of Kastoria and Florina.[1] He soon became a member of the so-called "New Filiki Eteria", established by Anastasios Pichion in 1867.[2] His actions were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, which lead to his imprisonment in Monastir.[1] When he was released, he assisted the Macedonian Committee as a military doctor. During the First Balkan War he was appointed as a director of a 150-bed military hospital. Shortly after, in 1914, he volunteered for the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.[3]

References

1. "Λόγιοι και επιστήμονες της Τουρκοκρατίας (μέρος 4ο)". 3 June 2014.
2. Vakalopoulos, Konstantinos (1983). Ho voreios hellēnismos kata tēn prōimē phasē tou Makedōnikou agōna, 1878-1894. Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 406.
3. Dafoulis, Pavlos Ach. (2007). Η υγειονομική περίθαλψη κατά την ένοπλο φάση του Μακεδονικού Αγώνος (1904-1908) και η δράση των εφέδρων και μονίμων αξιωματικών του υγειονομικού που συμμετείχαν στον Μακεδονικό Αγώνα (PDF). University of Ioannina. p. 212.