Background
He was born in Chios of Greek ancestry, in a Christian Greek Orthodox village on the island of Chios.
Diplomat Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
He was born in Chios of Greek ancestry, in a Christian Greek Orthodox village on the island of Chios.
He served numerous administrative positions in the Ottoman Empire including minister of foreign affairs in 1856, then ambassador to Berlin in 1876, and to Vienna from 1879 to 1882. He also served as Army Engineer and minister of interior from 1883 to 1885. In 1876-1877, he represented the Ottoman Government at the Constantinople Conference.
As a young boy in 1822, he was orphaned and captured by Ottoman soldiers during the massacre of the Greek population of Chios.
He was sold into slavery, brought to Constantinople, and adopted by the (later) grand vizier Hüsrev Pasha. The child, now named İbrahim Edhem, quickly distinguished himself with his intelligence and after having attended schools in the Ottoman Empire, he was dispatched along with a number of his peers, and under the supervision of his father, then grand vizier, and of the sultan Mahmud II himself, to Paris to pursue his studies under state scholarship.
There he returned a Bachelor of Arts, and was one of the top pupils at the École des Mines. He thus became Turkey"s first mining engineer in the modern sense, and he started his career in this field
Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople.