Ionian Academy

Coordinates: 39°37′15″N 19°55′26″E / 39.62083°N 19.92389°E / 39.62083; 19.92389
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The building of the Ionian Academy. Fully restored after the WWII Luftwaffe bombings

The Ionian Academy (

département of Corcyre,[2][3] and became a university during the British administration,[3] through the actions of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford in 1824.[4] It is also considered the precursor of the Ionian University
. It had Philological, Law, and Medical Schools.

The first period of existence of its Medical School was from 1824 to 1828. The second from 1844 to 1865 (when the Ionian islands united with Greece). Many of the physicians at the academy had followed the traditional path of studying in Italy, and in particular at the medical School of Bologna.

Zante (Zakynthos) met the Earl of Guilford in 1825 in England
and was given the position of professor of the academy's Medical School.

École Polytechnique in Paris, France, in Italy and in England between 1820 and 1823, and became the director of the school of Mathematics at the academy.[6]

The academy gave Public courses in Sciences, Ethics and humanities, it offered subjects like, Physiology, Botany, political economy and Penal and Civil law.[7]

George Bowen was president of the Academy 1847-1851 and later first governor of Queensland.[citation needed]

After the union of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece in 1864, the Ionian Academy was closed to support the newly established University of Athens. Parts of the staff moved to Athens and also the library was brought there.[citation needed]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ History of the University
  2. ^ The Literary Panorama, and National Register. Cox, Son, and Baylis. 1811. p. 561.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4214-0298-7
    .
  4. ^ Sir John Edwin Sandys (1967). A History of Classical Scholarship: The eighteenth century in Germany, and the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States of America. Hafner Pub. Co. p. 369.
  5. ^ Jean Lascaratos, Spyros Marketos, "The Link between Medical School of Bologna and Ionian Academy". Medicina Nei Secoli - Giornale di Storia della Medicina; Vol.I N.2, Roma 1989, pp. 157–165
  6. National and Capodistrian University of Athens
    (in Greek). Retrieved 2013-09-13.
  7. ISBN 9783764361679
    .

References

39°37′15″N 19°55′26″E / 39.62083°N 19.92389°E / 39.62083; 19.92389

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