Jean Karadja Pasha

Prince Jean Constantin Alexandre Othon Karadja Pasha (March 9, 1835 in Nauplia – August 11, 1894 in The Hague) was a Phanariot army officer and diplomat of the Ottoman Empire. He was also a talented pianist and composer. Family Jean was the son of Prince Constantin Caradja (1799–1860) and Adèle Condo Dandolo (1814–1891) who descended from the famous Venetian Dogal family. He was the grandson of Prince John G. Caradja. In 1859 he married in Caroline Durand in Constantinople. They had one child before they divorced: Princesse Marguerite Karadja Durand (1859–1944) who married a French diplomat, Baron Evain Pavée de Vendeuvre. They in turn had 7 children. On April 24, 1887 he married Marie Louise Smith, of Sweden, known as Princess Mary Karadja (1868–1943). She was the youngest daughter of Lars Olsson Smith. They had two children: Prince Constantin Karadja (1889–1950), who married Princess Marcelle Hélène Caradja (1896–1971). Princess Despina Marie Roxane Alexandra Theodora Karadja (1892–1983), who had no issue. Education and studies After high school in Athens and the military school and law education in Berlin, he was admitted at age 15 to the translation office of the Ottoman Empire in 1850, through which all the future Ottoman diplomats passed.