The first Anatomy professors in the Medical School of the University of Athens

Abstract

The purpose of this historical review is to add new elements to the international literature in relation to the birth and progress of the science of anatomy in modern Greece. Step by step, it outlines the efforts of prominent Greek anatomists to establish the course of the basic science of anatomy in the newly founded Medical School, the laborious effort to collect cadaveric material, to compile museum anatomical collections and to gradually build the foundations of modern anatomy science at the Medical School of the Athenian University.