Historian Giorgos Dertilis has died at the age of 84. He was born in Athens in 1939 and lived in Kitira for the last years.

He studied public law and economics at the University of Athens School of Law and completed postgraduate studies in political theory and history at the University of Sheffield.

Returning to Greece in 1978, he was appointed as a specialist in economic history at the Athens School of Law, of which he became Vice-Chancellor in 1980. Three years later, in 1983, he was elected Professor of Social and Economic History at the Athens School of Law . Department of Political Science of the Athens School of Law, who retired in 2002 with an honorary professorship.

In 2000, he was elected professor at the Higher School of Social Sciences in Paris, as well as a visiting professor at Harvard University, the Institute of the European University in Florence, Oxford University, and others.

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 General Secretary of the Board of Directors of the National Bank Education Fund (1986–1991), Permanent Member and Research Director of the National Bank of Greece, Member of the National Research Advisory Board, National Research Foundation and Schlumberger. and Maison Suger Foundations (Paris), and President of the Hellenic Society for Economic History.

Twelve of his books and forty articles have been published or translated into Greek, English, French, Spanish and Italian.

He was awarded the National Legion of Honor and received French citizenship. Among his works:

• Social transformation and military intervention, 1880–1909 (Exanda Editions, 1977)
• “The Banking Question”: Economic and Political Disagreements in Greece in the 9th Century (Publications of the Ethnic Banking Educational Foundation, 1989)
• The Greek Economy (1830-1910) and the Industrial Revolution (Editions Ant. N. Sakkulas, 1984)
• Themes in Modern Greek History 18th-20th Centuries (Sakkoula Publications, 1991)
• History of the Greek state (1830-1920) (MIET publications, 2004)
• Associations, testimonies, novels (Polis editions, 2013)

“I was saddened to learn of the death of the great historian of modern Greece, George V. Dertilis. A worthy scholar, with a distinct imprint in the university, in research and writing. But also an active citizen, Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in his post the death of G. Dertilis.

“He has contributed to the development of historical science since the early 80s in many ways: he taught at the University of Athens; And later at the Department of Greek Studies at the Higher School of Social Sciences in Paris. Creation of the Historical Archive of the University. An idea he came up with himself. And, of course, by writing a valuable work, the highlight of which is the “History of the Greek State,” the Prime Minister added.

And he continued: “His recent election to the Academy of Athens was the culmination of a brilliant career and a consistent public course. Because Dertilis was an interventionist intellectual. With a clear vision and with a real concern for the progress of the place. “History does not repeat itself and rarely teaches,” he said. “It just shows how society can avoid the mistakes of the past in the future.” We respect his words … To his beloved Erietta, his faithful students and all his people, I express my sincere condolences.

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