Anastasios Polyzoidis

Who was Anastasios Polyzoidis?

Anastasios Polyzoidis was a Greek politician and judicial official.

He was born in Melnik, Ottoman empire, where he graduated local Greek school. From 1818 he was studying law, history and social studies in Vienna, Göttingen and Berlin. At the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, he interrupted his studies and returned to Greece. After a series of adventures he reached Trieste, and from there he passed to Missolonghi along with some philhellenes.

In Missolonghi he cooperated with Alexandros Mavrokordatos and was set in several gubernatorial positions in the Provisional Administration of Greece. He took part in the First Greek National Assembly at Epidaurus. There, almost on his own, he wrote the new state's constitution and the declaration of 15 January 1822, which informed the European powers, allied in the Holy Alliance, that the revolution was national and not social. In 1823 he was in charge of the committee, which was sent in London for the negotiation of a public loan. In 1827, he was elected representative in the National Convention at Troezen and in October of the same year, he went to Paris, in order to continue his studies.