Callimachi family

Callimachi, Calimachi, or Kallimachi (originally Calmaşul or Călmaşu) was a Moldavian boyar and princely family, originating with a group of free peasants living in the Orhei area of Bessarabia. It still remains present today in modern Romania.

Members

• Vasile Călmaşul: b. 1640, Landowner in Bucovina
• Teodor Călmaşul: (1660—1740) vornic (headman) of Câmpulung, father of Ioan and Gavriil
• Ioan Teodor Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1758-1761
• Gavriil Callimachi: Orthodox monk, Mitropolite of Moldavia ?-1786
• Grigore Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1761-1764; 1767-1769
• Alexandru Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1795-1799
• Scarlat Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1806; de-jure only, under Imperial Russian occupation, 1807-1810; 1812-1819); Prince of Wallachia, 1821 de-jure only - prevented from reaching his throne by Vladimirescu's Pandur uprising
• Alexandros Kallimachis: Ottoman diplomat, governor of Samos Island 1850-1854
• Scarlat Callimachi: communist activist
• Andrew Calimach: author
• Rukmini Maria Callimachi journalist

Sources

• Nita Dan Danielescu. "Gavriil Callimachi, ctitorul Catedralei mitropolitane Sf. Gheorghe din Iasi" Ziarul Lumina, 2006-02-20
• Narcis Dorin Ion. Castele, palate şi conace din România, 2003
• Ghyka family website, genealogical tree [1]