Koraes Chair re-endowment, King’s College London
The Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London commemorates Greek scholar and major figure of the Greek Enlightenment Adamantios Koraes (1748-1833), the founding father of the Greek nation-state that came into existence after the Revolution of 1821. The Chair itself was established with the help of Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos in 1918, at the end of the First World War, during that formative historical era that would shape the future of the entire European continent. Since the 1970s, the Chair has been the focal point and impetus for an expanding programme of teaching, research and outreach in Modern Greek and Byzantine studies at King’s College, now a leading centre for these fields worldwide. With the support of the A. G. Leventis Foundation and support from other educational and philanthropic institutions and individuals in the UK, Greece and Cyprus, a new endowment was recently secured that established a firm basis for the future of this prestigious academic position – a landmark achievement celebrated in 2018, in the centenary year from the original founding of the position.
Grants given:
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
