Nicos Hadjinicolaou


Nicos Hadjinicolaou is Professor of Art History, University of Crete.

  • Born in Salonica, Greece, the 27th of September 1938

  • Baccalaureat, 1956

  • Medical student at the Universities of Vienna (Austria) and West Berlin from 1956 to 1959

  • Student of Art History, German Literature and Philosophy at the Universities of West Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich from 1959-1965

  • Lecturer of art history for the University of Maryland (Munich Campus) during the academic year 1964-65

  • January - June 1979: visiting associate professor at UCLA

  • June 1980: Docteur es Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, after defending in public a these de doctorat d'Etat (ancien regime) on "La Lutte des classes en France dans la production d' images de 1829/1931"

  • April - December 1980: visiting associate professor at UCLA

  • January - June 1981: visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City

  • October 1981 - July 1982: visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, West Germany

  • April - June 1984: UCLA Art Council Professor

  • October - December 1984: visiting professor at UCLA

  • Since June 1985: Professor of Art History at the University of Crete, Greece

  • April 1988: Distinguished Visiting Scholar in art History, at State University of New York at Binghamton

  • October 1988 - September 1990: responsible for planning and organizing the exhibitions and an international conference on El Greco in Iraklion, Crete, to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the artist' s birth

  • 1989 - 1990: member of the committee for the exhibition of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Cyprus in its new building. The inauguration tool place in Nicosia the 8th of June 1990

  • October 1990 - October 1994: elected twice Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Crete

  • March 1994: member of the National Consultative Committee on Scientific Research and Technology

  • March - September 1995: responsible for planning and organize the exhibition at the National Gallery of Athens El Greco in Italy and Italian Art (Sept. - Dec 95) and to the International Conference on the same subject (Rethymno Crete, 22-24 September 1995)

He has presented papers in 24 international congresses, written 13 books that have been translated in many languages, and has published 38 articles in Greek, English, German, and French journals.


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