Vasilis N. Kremmydas

Vasilis Kremmydas was born in 1935 in Messini, Messenia, where he completed high school. In 1959, he graduated with a degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens. From 1964 to 1967, he pursued postgraduate studies in economic and social history at the University of Lyon and the then Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He earned his doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki in 1972 with his dissertation "The Trade of the Peloponnese in the 18th Century." In 1981, he was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Athens with his book "Circumstances and Trade in Pre-revolutionary Peloponnese, 1793-1821." From 1965 to 1967, he served as a lecturer in Modern Greek at the University of Lyon. He worked in private education for 17 years (Ziridis High School and Moraitis School) and taught as a specialist scientist at the University of Crete from 1979 to 1982. In 1982, he was appointed as a full professor at the same university, and in 1987, he became a professor at the University of Athens. He was invited twice as a guest professor at universities in Paris. He was an emeritus professor at the University of Athens, a member of the Art and Culture Committee of the Parliament, and director of the independent public service "Archives of the Prime Minister, Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and the General Secretariat of the Government." His specific scientific interests were focused on the economic and social realities at the end of the Ottoman rule and the Greek 19th century, as well as issues related to the Revolution of 1821 and the early decades of the Greek state's existence. He passed away on November 12, 2017, at the age of 82.