Nikolaos Louvaris

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Nikolaos Louvaris (in Greek script Νικόλαος Λούβαρις; * October 23, 1887 in Arnados on Tinos ; † March 26, 1961 in Athens ) was a Greek theologian , religious philosopher , author and politician.

Life

1903-1907 Louvaris studied theology at the University of Athens and from 1910 to 1914 with a Foundation grant his native island at the University of Leipzig hermeneutics , theology, philosophy and pedagogy . During this time he was strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl , Wilhelm Dilthey and Eduard Spranger and their arguments against historical materialism .

On his return to Greece he became a lecturer and director of various teachers' seminars in Thessaloniki and in 1925 professor of the New Testament at the University of Athens. He kept this chair until 1955. He gathered numerous students around him ("Louvaristas"). With his synthesis of orthodox spirituality ( Athos ; Gregorios Palamas ) and Western psychological thinking, which he presented in numerous publications, he met with both enthusiastic approval and severe criticism.

From 1926 to 1928 he was also State Secretary in the Greek Ministry of Education and from November 1935 to April 1936 and from July 4, 1943 to October 12, 1944 Minister of Education. As a member of the Ioannis Rallis government, supported by the German occupying forces , he was convicted of collaboration after liberation and was imprisoned from 1944 to 1949. His son Alfred Louvaris was abducted in 1946 and presumably murdered. It later became known that Louvaris had entered the Rallis government at the urging of Archbishop Damaskinos .

After his release from prison Louvaris was able to continue teaching. In 1960 he was accepted into the Academy of Athens .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louvaris, Nikolaus ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  2. ↑ Article Nikolaos Louvaris
  3. ↑ on Alfred Louvaris ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  4. ↑ Rudolf Grimm in: Chryssoula Kambas, Marilisa Mitsou (ed.): Understanding Hellas: German-Greek cultural transfer in the 20th century . Cologne – Weimar – Vienna 2010, p. 102
personal data
SURNAME Louvaris, Nikolaos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luvaris, Nikolaus; Loubaris, Nikolaos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek theologian, religious philosopher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Tinos
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1961
Place of death Athens