National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greek Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ethniko ke Kapodistriako panepistimio Athinon ) or just University of Athens is the oldest of the modern universities in the eastern Mediterranean and with over 50,000 students, the second largest university in Greece.
History
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was founded on May 3, 1837 by Otto I as Ottonische University and later named after Ioannis Kapodistrias. At its inception it was the first university in the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, and consisted of the four faculties of theology, law, medicine and the arts (the latter also included the departments of Applied Sciences and Mathematics with a ). According to the prevailing currents, the organizers of the university, Georg Ludwig von Maurer and Joseph of Armansperg oriented to the German educational ideas of Fichte and Humboldt. The first year the university was one of 28 professors, a quarter of them were German scholars who came as Phil Hellenes during the Greek War of Independence to Greece or King Otto accompanied 1833. In November 1841, the University moved to the new main building. Theodore of Heldreich, director of the botanical garden took over from 1858 to 1883 the post of curator of the university's Natural History Museum. 1864, the Ionian Academy was closed, and the University has been enriched by many eminent professors.
1904, the university was split into two largely autonomous areas ( arts and sciences). This was later withdrawn with the establishment of new departments again. Between 1895 and 1911 the number of students was about 1,000 a year, this was the number of those students 1837-1975, who devoted themselves to the law, relatively constant at 43%. Also, no new faculty was founded in that period: it was divided only by medicine dentistry from, similar to the philosophy of mathematics. Kamen to a Professor in 1837 five students, this number changed to 1975 and remained at 1 consist of 132 since 1954 at the University of licensing restrictions. From 1960, the company moved to the new campus Ilissia. Some of the old buildings are still used but, as well, designed by Theophil Hansen main building and the library.
Faculties and Institutes
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is divided into six faculties (Greek σχολές ) with institutes (Greek τμήματα ) and chairs (Greek τομείς ) divided:
- Faculty of Theology Institute of Theology Department of Systematic Theology
- Chair of Biblical exegesis
- Chair of Church History
- Institute of Patristic Studies, History of Economic Thought and symbolism
- Chair of canon law and ecclesiastical literature from the 9th century AD
- Chair of Christian liturgy, education and pastoral theology
- Chair of Biblical exegesis and cultural life in the Mediterranean
- Chair of Religious Studies, Philosophy and Sociology
- Institute of Philology Department of Classical Philology
- Institute of Byzantine Studies
- Chair of Modern Greek
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of History
- Department of Archaeology and Art History
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Pedagogy
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Language - Language Teaching
- Department of Literature - Culture
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of Literature
- Chair of French Language - Language Teaching
- Department of French literature
- Department of French history and culture
- Focus on Italian
- Focus on Spanish
- Institute of Medicine
- Department of Dentistry
- Institute of Pharmacy
- Institute for Nursing
- Faculty of Law, Economics and Political Science Institute of Law
- Department of Economics
- Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences
- Faculty of Science Institute of Physics
- Department of Biology
- Institute of Geology
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Mathematics
- Institute of Information Technology and Telecommunications
- Institute of Sports and Sports Science
- Department of Primary Education
- Institute of Early Childhood
- Institute of Communications and Mass Media
- Institute of Philosophy and History of Science
Personalities
Staff
- Carl Fraas (1810-1875), botanist of the 19th century
- Spiridon Miliarakis (1852-1919), botanist
- Constantin Carathéodory (1873-1950), mathematician
- Konstantinos Demertzis (1876-1936), legal scholar and Prime Minister
- Diamandouros ( * 1942 ), European citizens rights commissioner since 2003
- Hagen Fleischer ( b. 1944 ), historian
- Anastasios Orlandos (1887-1979), architect, architectural historian and archaeologist
- Walter Puchner ( born 1947 ), theater scholar
Alumni
- Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936), politician
- Vladimir Nikolayevich Beneschewitsch (1874-1938), historian
- George Nicolas Papanicolaou (1883-1962), physician and inventor of the Pap test
- Ioannis Kakridis (1901-1992), classical scholar
- Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907-1998), politician
- Panagiotis Zepos (1908-1985), jurist and politician
- Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996), writer
- Andreas Papandreou (1919-1996), politician
- Theo Angelopoulos (1935-2012), Film Director
- Sophia of Greece ( b. 1938 ), Queen of Spain
- Constantine II ( born 1940 ), King of Greece
- Georgios Merikas, physicians
- Gerasimos Danilatos, inventor of the scanning electron microscope ESEM
- Katerina Batzeli (born 1958 ), economist and Minister
- Myra Spiliopoulou, mathematician and computer scientist
- Vagias Demetri (* 1975), legal sociologist