Ottoman Ambassador to US | Grégoire d’Aristarchi Bey

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Grégoire d’Aristarchi Bey (14.10.1873-29.03.1883)

Grégoire Aristarchis, also known as Aristarchi Bey, (died 1915) was an Ottoman diplomat of Greek ethnicity, author of a corpus of Ottoman Legislation. He served as Ottoman Minister in Washington from 1873 to 1883 with Alexandre Mavroyeni Bey. After 1883 he lived in Paris where he worked as advisor by Alfred Nobel.[*] After the fall of Abdul Hamid II he served as an Ottoman diplomat to the Netherlands where he died. He composed one of the first collections of the Ottoman Law[**] in 7 volumes in French language
[*] Mémoires d'Aristarchi-Bey (Démétrius).Imprimereie Daloux, 1888 


[**] Grégoire ARISTARCHI BEY: Législation ottomane, ou Recueil des lois, règlements, ordonnances, traités, capitulations et autres documents officiels de l'Empire Ottoman. Vol. I: Droit privé: législation relative au droit civil commun, droit de la propriété foncière et droit commercial et maritime. NICOLAÏDES (Démétrius), éd. Constantinople: Imprimeries Frères NICOLAÏDES, 1873. XXX-427 p., 20 cm. 

Harvard law Library has a copy of  "L'Angleterre, les États-Unis et le Vénézuela', a 16 page pamphlet by Grégoire Aristarchi that carries his signature.