Theodoros Manousis
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| birth_date = 1793
| birth_place = Siatista, Ottoman Empire
| death_date = 1858
| death_place = Athens, Kingdom of Greece
| nationality = {{flagicon|First Hellenic Republic}} Greek
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| education = Leipzig University, University of Göttingen
| employer = University of Athens (1840-1858)
| occupation = University professor, historian, judge, benefactor, archaeologist
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Theodoros Manousis ({{langx|el|Θεόδωρος Μανούσης}}; 1793-1858) was a Greek historian, judge, benefactor, archaeologist and the first professor of history of the University of Athens.
Biography
Manousis was born in 1793 in Siatista, then Ottoman Empire (now Greece).{{cite book |last=Pedazou |first=Ioulia |date= |title=Ο ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΜΑΝΟΥΣΗΣ ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΣΤΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ (1837-1858) |url=https://docplayer.gr/amp/661415-O-theodoros-manoysis-kathigitis-istorias-sto-panepistimio-athinon-1837-1858.html |location= |publisher= |pages=73–79 |isbn= |author-link=}}{{Cite web|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/69108|title=Πανδέκτης: Μανούσης Θεόδωρος|website=pandektis.ekt.gr|accessdate=15 September 2016}}{{cite book |last=Lappas |first=Kōstas Th. |year=2004 |title=Panepistēmio kai phoitētes stēn Hellada kata ton 19o aiōna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HjWcAAAAMAAJ&q=%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%8C%CE%B4%CF%89%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82 |location= |publisher=Kentro Neoellēnikōn Ereunōn |page=638 |isbn= 9789607138309|author-link=}}{{cite book |author=Hetaireia Hellēnon Philologōn |title=Platōn (vols 19-22) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1fAAAAMAAJ&q=%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%8C%CE%B4%CF%89%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82 |location= |publisher=Bibliopōleion I. Siderē |pages=301, 304, 307 |year=1958 |isbn=}} His father was a rich merchant and sent him study in the Leipzig University and later in the University of Göttingen. He met with Theoklitos Farmakidis and with him he was briefly the director of the Hermes o Logios. He was imprisoned for a while by the Austrian authorities for revolutionary activities. He continued his studies in 1828 in Italy in history and archaeology, and returned to Greece in 1830. Initially he served as a judge in the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece and as royal commissioner of the Church of Greece (1835-1843).{{Cite journal|url=http://www.ekebi.gr/magazines/ShowImage.asp?file=63851&code=2636|title=Συνοπτική Ιστορία των Πανεπιστημιακών Σχολών - Φιλοσοφική Σχολή|last=Veis|first=Nikos|date=1 December 1937|journal=Nea Estia|accessdate=15 September 2016|issue=is. 263|page= 1773}} From the first year the foundation of the University of Athens, and for about twenty years (1840-1858), he was appointed as a professor teaching history.{{cite book |last=Karamanolakis |first=Vaggelis D. |year=2006 |title=Η συγκρότηση της ιστορικής επιστήμης και η διδασκαλία της ιστορίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (1837-1932) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ojsMAQAAMAAJ&q=%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%8C%CE%B4%CF%89%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82 |location= |publisher=Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών ΕΙΕ |page=67 |isbn= 9789607138330|author-link=}} He was elected rector in the academic year 1845-1846, while in the academic year 1849-1850 he was dean of the Philosophical School.{{Cite journal|url=http://www.uoa.gr/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF-files/organa/Epethrida_2014.pdf|title=Πρυτάνεις Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών|date=2015|journal=Επετηρίδα Πανεπιστημιακών Ετών 2012-2013|publisher=University of Athens|accessdate=15 September 2016|page= 25}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.deanphil.uoa.gr/h-sxoli/kosmhteia/istorika-stoixeia.html|title=ΕΚΠΑ: Κοσμητεία Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής - Ιστορικά Στοιχεία|website=www.deanphil.uoa.gr|accessdate=15 September 2016}}
He died in 1858 in Athens, at the age of 65, inheriting all his fortune at charities and at the University of Athens which established the [http://www.siatistabibl.gr/oldsite/ Manousios Library] in his hometown, Siatista, housing more than 5.000 books.
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Category:19th-century Greek historians
Category:19th-century Greek judges
Category:Greek philanthropists
Category:University of Göttingen alumni
Category:Leipzig University alumni
Category:Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Category:Rectors of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Category:Prisoners and detainees of Austria