Argyrios Vouzas

Argyrios Vouzas (Greek: Αργύριος Βούζας) was a Greek revolutionary and doctor of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biography

Vouzas was born in 1857 in Kastoria, then Ottoman Empire (now Greece). He studied at a Greek school of Kastoria, at a Monastir high school and later graduated in medicine from the University of Athens. He became a doctor, acting in the areas of Kastoria and Florina. He soon became a member of the so-called "New Filiki Eteria", established by Anastasios Pichion in 1867. His actions were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, which lead to his imprisonment in Monastir. When he was released, he assisted the Macedonian Committee as a military doctor. During the First Balkan War he was appointed as a director of a 150-bed military hospital. Shortly after, in 1914, he volunteered for the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.