Constantinos Caratheodory (1802–1879)

Constantinos Caratheodory (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή, romanized: Konstantinos Karatheodori, Turkish: Konstantin Karateodori, French: Constantin Carathéodory[1]; 5 February 1802[2]-28 September 1879) was an Ottoman Greek physician who served as the personal physician 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.

Cyril and an uncle from his father's side,[2] a doctor named Stephanos Caratheodory (İstefanaki Efendi), who also later taught at the Imperial School of Medicine.

[6] He was friends with Spyridon Mavrogenis, who later wrote a biography of him,[7] "The Life of Constantine Caratheodory" (Βίος Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή), first published by Gauthier-Villars in Paris in 1885.

[7] In 1835 he married Grand Dragoman Stavraki Aristarchi's daughter, and after her death remarried another woman.