Giorgos V. Dertilis

George Dertilis was born in Athens in 1939. He is an emeritus professor of History at the University of Athens. He studied Public Law and Economic Sciences in Athens, and Political Theory and History in England (1973-1977). From 1978 to 2000, he taught History at the Law School of the University of Athens, where he was unanimously elected associate professor in 1980 and professor of Social and Economic History in the Department of Political Science in 1983. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and the European University Institute in Florence, and is a regular member of the European Academy. In 2000, he was elected a full professor (directeur d'études) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and resigned from the University of Athens. He founded the Historical Archive of the University of Athens and has been a member of the National Research Advisory Council and the Scientific or Administrative Councils of the National Research Foundation, the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank, and the Schlumberger and Maison Suger Foundations (Paris). Twelve of his books and approximately forty articles have been published or translated into Greek, English, French, Spanish, and Italian. Since 1989, he has been elected a regular member of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europaea).