Wassilios E. Fthenakis
Wassilios Emmanuel Fthenakis ( Greek Βασίλειος Εμμανουήλ Φθενάκης ; born November 2, 1937 in Kilkis ) is a Greek - German educator, anthropologist, geneticist and psychologist.
Career
Fthenakis studied pedagogy in Greece , then anthropology and human genetics , molecular genetics and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate . In 1968 he obtained a diploma in psychology and in 1969 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1986 he completed his habilitation in social anthropology .
From 1975 he was director of the State Institute for Early Pedagogy in Munich, which he helped to establish and then headed for thirty years as director. From 1987 to 2002 he was Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology and Family Research at the University of Augsburg and, since 2002, Full Professor of Developmental Psychology and Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen .
Fthenakis has been President of the Didacta Association - Verband der Bildungswirtschaft e. V., between 2012 and 2016 President of the WorldDidac Association and since 2008 chairman of the "Friends of the Gertrud Weinhold Collection in the Bavarian National Museum". From 2005 to 2014 Fthenakis was President of the Greek Academy e. V. in Munich and has been its honorary president since 2014.
In addition, Fthenakis is an expert at the Federal Constitutional Court on questions of child rights and custody after separation and divorce .
Awards
- 2004: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 2007: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2007: Georg Kerschensteiner Medal from the City of Munich
- 2013: Hessian Order of Merit on ribbon
- 2007: Awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Crete
- 2008: Awarded an honorary doctorate by the Harokopeion University of Athens
- 2014: Awarded the title of Professor Honoris Causa by the Moscow State Pedagogical University
Web links
- Literature by and about Wassilios E. Fthenakis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Wassilios E. Fthenakis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Minister for Labor and Social Affairs. On the departure of Professor Fthenakis from the State Institute for Early Childhood Education ( Memento from January 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Fthenakis, Wassilios E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fthenakis, Wassilios Emmanuel (full name); Φθενάκης, Βασίλειος Εμμανουήλ (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek-German pedagogue, anthropologist, geneticist and psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kilkis , Greece |