Konstantinos Caratheodory

Constantinos Caratheodory (, , ; 5 February 1802 -28 September 1879) was an Ottoman Greek medical doctor who served as the personal medical doctor of Abdülmecid I, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

The historian Johann Strauss describes him as one of the "best known" teachers at the Imperial School of Medicine in Constantinople, now known as Istanbul.

History

Caratheodory was born in Adrianople, now known in English as Edirne. He graduated from the Greek School of Adrianople and then attended the Greek School of Bucharest for a year. However he moved to Vienna after his uncle from his mother's side, Cyril VI of Constantinople, died in the Constantinople massacre of 1821 . Cyril and an uncle from his father's side, The Ottoman court designated him as one of its doctors, and Caratheodory became the Hospital of Infectious Diseases' head doctor, and in 1836 the professor of the surgical ward.

He founded the Ottoman Imperial Medicine Society,

He was friends with Spyridon Mavrogenis, who later wrote a biography of him, "The Life of Constantine Caratheodory" (Βίος Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή), first published by Gauthier-Villars in Paris in 1885.

His grandson was the renowned mathematician and academic Constantin Carathéodory.