Twelve books and forty articles by G. Dertilis have been published or translated into Greek, English, French, Spanish and Italian
The historian has passed away George Dertilis, who was born in Athens in 1939 and died in Kythira at the age of 84. He studied public law and economic sciences at the Athens Law School of the University of Athens and did postgraduate studies in Political Theory and History at the University of Sheffield. Returning to Greece, in 1978, he was appointed a specialist scholar of economic history at the Athens Law School, of which he became vice-chancellor in 1980. Three years later, in 1983, he was elected full professor of Social and Economic History in the Political Science Department of the Athens Law School, from who retired in 2002 with the title of Professor Emeritus.
In 2000, he was elected professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, while he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Oxford, etc. In 1989, he was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He was chairman of the board of directors of the historical archive of the University of Athens (1987-2002), of which he was the founder. He was also secretary general of the board of directors of the National Bank Educational Foundation (1986-1991), regular member and director of research at the National Bank of Greece, member of the National Research Advisory Council, the National Research Foundation and the Schlumberger and Maison Suger Foundations (Paris) as well as president of the Hellenic Society of Economic History.
Twelve books and forty articles by G. Dertilis have been published or translated into Greek, English, French, Spanish and Italian. He was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honor and had been granted French citizenship.
Among his works we mention:
- Social Transformation and Military Intervention, 1880 – 1909 (Exanta Editions, 1977)
- The “Question of the Banks”: economic and political controversy in Greece in the 9th century (Ethnic Bank Educational Foundation publications, 1989)
- Greek economy (1830-1910) and industrial revolution (Editions Ant. N. Sakkoulas, 1984)
- Themes of modern Greek history 18th – 20th century (Sakkoula Publications, 1991)
- History of the Greek State (1830-1920) (MIET publications, 2004)
- Associations, testimonies, novels (Polis publications, 2013)
Source: Skai
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