Dimitris G. Apostolopoulos

Dimitris G. Apostolopoulos is a Research Director at the National Research Foundation. He studied Law and Political Science in Athens, Nancy, and Paris. Holding doctorates from the Universities of Athens and Paris, he taught at the Panteion School of Political Sciences after the political transition in Greece and later (in 1980) organized the research program "Institutions and Ideology in Modern Greek Society, 15th - 19th Century" at the National Research Foundation, which he continues to direct to this day. His publications include: "The Emergence of the School of Natural Law in the 'Turkish-occupied' Greek Society" (2 volumes), Athens 1980-1983; "The 'Sacred Code' of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Second Half of the 15th Century: The Only Known Fragments," Athens 1992; "Reliefs of a Legal Art: Byzantine Law and Post-Byzantine 'Legislation,'" Athens 1999; "On the Phanariots: Interpretative Essays and Minor Analyses," Athens 2003; "After the Conquest: Stochastic Adaptations of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in an Unpublished Circular of 1477" (in collaboration with Machi Paizi), Athens 2006; "Voltaire, Montesquieu, Real de Curban: Recent Research on Their Presence in the Greek Ideological Space in the 18th Century," Athens 2007; "The Legitimacy of the Great Church" (2 volumes), Athens 2008-2010; "Official Texts of the Patriarchate of Constantinople: The Surviving Documents from the Period 1454-1498" (in collaboration with Machi Paizi), Athens 2011. (See also "Publications"). In 1989, he was awarded by the Academy of Athens "for his substantial contribution to the exploration of unknown aspects of Greek History" and was named a Fellow of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center in Washington. In 2001, he was elected Professeur invité at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and in 2003, Vice President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. In 2011, the Ecumenical Patriarch awarded him the title of "Archon Grand Chartophylax" of the Great Church. Since 1991, he has been the editor of the scientific journal "O Eranistis," which specializes in the study of the Modern Greek Enlightenment.