Konstantinos Despotopoulos

Konstantinos Despoto-poulos was a Greek philosopher and intellectual who became a university professor and the Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece. He attended the 1st Gymnasium of Athens, which he graduated with perfect marks, and received his PhD from the University of Athens in Philosophy, again with perfect marks.

He taught Philosophy of Law and general philosophy courses at the University of Athens, the University of Nancy, and the Panteion University. In 1984 he was elected a member of the Academy of Athens, serving as its chairman in 1993. He was a foreign Fellow of the Romanian Academy and the Académie de Marseille. Despotopoulos died in Athens one day shy of his 103rd birthday on 7 February 2016.