Alexander Mavrokordatos (1636–1709)

Alexander Mavrocordatos (; 163623 December 1709) was a member of the Greek Mavrocordatos family, the ruler (Archon) of the island of Mykonos, a doctor of philosophy and medicine of the University of Bologna, and Dragoman of the Porte to Sultan Mehmed IV in 1673 — notably employed in negotiations with the Habsburg monarchy during the Great Turkish War.

He was the son of Nikolaos Mavrocordatos and Loxandra Scarlatou.

Mavrocordatos drafted the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699). He became a secretary of state and was created a Reichsgraf of the Holy Roman Empire. His authority, with that of Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha and Rami Mehmed Pasha, was supreme at the court of Mustafa II, and he did much to ameliorate the conditions of the Christians in the Ottoman Empire. He preserved the independence of the island of Mykonos which was ruled by its noble families and he made sure to not oppress its Catholic minority. He was disgraced in 1703, but was later recalled to court by Sultan Ahmed III.

He also wrote several historical, grammatical, and other treatises. In 1689, Alexander Mavrocordatus became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. His son, Nicholas Mavrocordatos, succeeded him as Dragoman in 1697 and in Nov 1709 was appointed hospodar of Moldavia.

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