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).
Christian Hansen (architect)
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Hans Christian Hansen was a Historicist Danish architect who worked 18 years in Greece where he was active in the transformation of Athens from a small town to the country's capital and an internation
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…History Museum. In November 1841, the university relocated to the Main Building of the University of Athens, a building designed by Danish architect Christian Hansen. He followed a neoclassical approach, "combining the monument's magnificence with a human scale simplicity" and gave the building its H-shape. The…
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Österreichischer Lloyd's Arsenal and Dockyards at Trieste, c. 1900
Østervold Observatory, 1861