Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greek Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο της Θεσσαλονίκης ) with approximately 81,500 students, the largest university in Greece and one of the largest in Europe. The university campus is located on the former site of the Jewish cemetery in the city center of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki. The University is a member of the network of Balkan Universities Network and the Black Sea Universities.

History

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki formed nationwide, in addition to the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the second university in Greece. Its establishment in 1925 was accompanied by the frame extensive reforms, as 1917 was the movement for the introduction of Dimotiki in primary schools and in 1929 the abolition of the middle school and realization of a six-year education plan. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki should represent the new image of Greek education and social class. Its modernity, she received a hand through the language of Dimotiki their professors and the other by the expansion of its courses, among many specialized new subjects were to be found, such as Forestry Science and foreign language didactics. As another example, acts 1950, the founding of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. 1974/1975 27 088 students were enrolled at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which was accounted for 29.1 % of the total student population in Greece. At a professor at that time were 75 students.

Faculties

The Aristotle University is divided into twelve faculties ( σχολές ) and 41 departments ( τμήματα ):

Famous People

Founding President

  • Georgios N. Chatzidakis (1848-1941), linguist and Neogräzist

Professors

  • Manolis Andronikos (1919-1992), archaeologist
  • Evangelos Venizelos ( b. 1957 ), lawyer, currently defense minister
  • Ioannis Kakridis (1901-1992), Classical philologist
  • Patroclus Karantinos (1903-1976), architect
  • Emmanuel Karasu (1862-1934), Ottoman politicians
  • Emmanuel Kriaras (* 1906), philologist
  • Vassilios Skouris (* 1948), legal scholar, President of the European Court
  • Manolis Triantafyllidis (1883-1959), linguist
  • Dimitris Tsatsos (1933-2010), legal scholar

Alumni

  • Gianna Angelopoulos - Daskalaki (* 1955), politician and businesswoman
  • Peter Fitzgerald ( b. 1960 ), Republican politician. U.S. Senator from Illinois
  • Günther Steffen Henrich ( b. 1938 ), and Byzantinist Neogräzist
  • Melina Kana (born 1966 ), singer
  • Harry M. Markowitz (* 1927), American economist
  • Thanasis Papakonstantinou ( born 1959 ), musician
  • Christos Sartzetakis ( born 1929 ), President of Greece 1985-1990
  • Hierotheos Vlachos ( born 1945 ), an Orthodox bishop and theologian
  • Christos Yannaras ( b. 1935 ), philosopher

Professores honoris causa

  • Hans Eideneier (* 1937), Byzantinist and Neogräzist
  • Peter Gottwald ( born 1944 ), professor at the University of Regensburg, President of the International Association of Procedural Law
Philosophy Natural science Manolis Triantaphyllidis Peter Fitzgerald (politician) Harry Markowitz
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