University of Smyrna
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| motto | Ex Oriente Lux (From the Orient Light) |
| activity | December 1920 - September 1922 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Izmir |
The University of Smyrna was a university founded by the local Greek authorities during the occupation of Izmir (1919-1922). Mathematician Constantin Carathéodory initiated the founding . However, due to the expulsion of the Greeks in the Greco-Turkish War in September 1922 , the university could not start operating.
background
Greek educational institutions such as the Greek Orthodox College and the Zografion Lyceum flourished during the Ottoman period . Thanks to the support of the Greek community , the church and private institutions, there were a total of 67 educational institutions in the early 20th century. There were also four girls' schools.
Carathéodorys initiative
Izmir came under Greek control as a result of the First World War , and the establishment of a university in the city was one of the most important projects of the Greek High Commissioner Aristidis Stergiadis . For this purpose, the mathematician Constantin Carathéodory , who was then a professor at the University of Göttingen and a close friend of Albert Einstein , came to Izmir. He took over the management of the university on behalf of the Greek government. For this reason, Georgios Ioakimoglou , lecturer for pharmacology at the Humboldt University in Berlin , was also called to Izmir in September 1920 to support Carathéodory with the organization and to accept the professorship for hygiene and microbiology.
Stergiadis promised to support this initiative and the Greek government paid for it and designated a building for it that was under construction. The founding of the Ionian University was proclaimed in December 1920 by a decree of the High Commissioner. This decree corresponded to the ideas that Carathéodory had presented in a memorandum.
Institutions and schools
The building was built in 1911 by the governor of Vilâyet Aydın Mustafa Rahmi Bey as a "School for Unity and Progress " ( İzmir İttihad ve Terakki Mektebi ), but it was not yet completed. From 1923, after the fire in Izmir , the building was used as a training center for teachers ( İzmir Erkek Muallim Mektebi ). In 1936 - after the institution moved to Kızılçullu , Buca - under the authority of the village institutes that were formed at that time, the building was given over to the İzmir Kız Lisesi girls' school .
bibliography
- Maria Georgiadou: Constantin Carathéodory . zero edition. Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-20352-0 ( online in the Google book search).
literature
- Georgios Agelopoulos: Contested Territories and the Quest for Ethnology: People and Places in İzmir 1919-22. Retrieved June 6, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paradise Lost Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance ( Memento of March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) by Giles Milton, quotation: The motto of Smyrna's Ionian University, due to open its doors to all - irrespective of race or religion - in September 1922
- ↑ Georgios Agelopoulos: Ethnography and national priorities in the post-Ottoman context. In: Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies. Retrieved June 5, 2011 .
- ↑ a b “Tarihçemiz” ( memento of October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the official website of the Izmir Girls' School, accessed on June 19, 2011 - Turkish