Giulio Mongeri

Roberto Giulio Mongeri (1 August 1873 - 30 November 1951) was a Turkish Levantine architect. He designed a number of notable buildings in Istanbul during the late period of the Ottoman Empire and in Ankara and other cities of Turkey in the early years of the Turkish Republic as a member of the First national architectural movement. He taught architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Istanbul.

Ancestors Like many Italian families, the Mongeri family fled the Austrian occupation after the defeat of the Italians in the Battle of Novara in 1849 during the First Italian War of Independence, and took refuge in the Ottoman Empire. Luigi Mongeri (1818–1882), who studied philosophy and medicine, moved from Crete to Istanbul, then Constantinople. He significantly contributed in the fight against the spread of cholera epidemic in that time. During the reign of Sultan Abdulmejid I , Luigi Mongeri was appointed to a hospital in Istanbul in 1857, and was promoted to the position of the chief physician in 1860. He served also as the personal doctor of the Sultan's sister Adile Sultan (1826–1899). During the reign of Sultan Abdulaziz , he was appointed chief physician of the newly established psychiatric hospital in 1873. He was awarded ordens from The Ottoman Empire and Kingdom of Italy.