The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, simply referred to as the University of Athens, is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses along the Athens agglomeration.
The 19th-century University of Athens historic building designed by Christian Hansen, as seen in 2014. It was once the only University building but now serves as a ceremony hall and rectory
King Otto of Greece was the founder of the University of Athens.
The historian and professor Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos, founder of the modern Greek historiography, was elected Rector of the University of Athens in 1872.
Statue of the first governor of Greece, Conte Ioannis Kapodistrias, whose name has been given to the university in 1932, after the unification of the Kapodistrian University (theoretical schools) and the National University (scientific schools).
Otto of Greece
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Otto was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 7 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
…one of the largest universities by enrollment in Europe, with over 69,000 registered students. The University of Athens was founded on 3 May 1837 by King Otto of Greece (in Greek, Óthon) and was named in his honour Othonian University (Οθώνειον Πανεπιστήμιον). It was the first university in the liberated Greek state…
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1833
King Otto's Farewell to the Bavarian royal court
The Entry of King Otto of Greece into Athens by Peter von Hess, 1839
A portrait by Gottlieb Bodmer