Theodoros Modis

Not to be confused with Theodore Modis.

Photograph of the funeral of Theodoros Modis.

Theodoros and his wife Paraskevi.

Theodoros Modis (Greek: Θεόδωρος Μόδης) was a Greek lumber merchant and scholar from Monastiri (today's Bitola, in North Macedonia).^[1][2]

He was among those who helped the founders of the Revolutionary Internal Organization in its formation, in order to defend Greek interests in Macedonia (Ottoman Empire at the time.).^[3] He was assassinated in his shop by Bulgarian komitadji on September 4, 1904. His assassination, like the killing of Pavlos Melas a month later, is among the violent events that marked the beginning of the Macedonian Struggle (Μακεδονικός Αγώνας in Greek).^[4]

He is the grandfather of Theodore Modis, the great-grandfather of Yorgo Modis, and the uncle of Georgios Modis.

Notes

1. Theodore Modis, Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century, Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2018, pp. 11-16,41-49.
2. Γεώργιος Χ. Μόδης, Αναμνήσεις, Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press, 2004 (published posthumously), pp. 65-66, 79-80.
3. Vakalopoulos, Konstantinos (1981). "Η εθνική δράση του Γεωργίου και Ιωάννου Ξανθού (Γευγελή) και του Αλεξ. Ζουμετίκου (Μοναστήρι) κατά το Μακεδονικό Αγώνα". Makedonika. 21: 400. doi:10.12681/makedonika.442.
4. Σταμάτης Ράπτης, Ιστορία του Mακεδονικού Αγώνος, Athens: Αναγνωστόπουλος & Πετράκος, 1925, pp. 6, 20-24.