Pulitsas, Panagiotis

Pulitsas was born in the laconic village of Heraki in 1881. He studied law at the University of Athens . He worked as a lawyer for 5 years, after which, in 1907, he was appointed as a judge, initially serving as a judge, and then in the courts of appeal in various cities of Greece.

He supplemented his legal knowledge at the university in Berlin , after which he served in the capitals of Macedonia, Thessaloniki , and Epirus , Ioannina (city) . Subsequently, he was appointed chairman of the court in Athens and in 1932 was appointed to the Council of State , remaining in this post until 1951 ^[2] .

In the first post-war elections of 1946 and before the convocation of the Hellenic Parliament , he became prime minister of the government formed by the leaders of the promonarchist "People's Party" ^[3] . He remained on the post of prime minister only 14 days (April 4 - 18, 1946 )
. Five years later, Pulitsas was elected to the parliament with the right-wing party Greek Call (Ελληνικός Συναγερμός). Pulitsas has been a member of the Academy of Athens since 1947 and became its president in 1957 ^{[4] [5]} Pulitsas was also chairman of the Union of Friends of Education and the Society of Byzantine Studies ^[6] . Pulitsas published articles in various scientific and legal journals and wrote the book “Relations between the State and the Church” .

He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix .

Pulitsas died in Athens in 1968.

• Greek nationalism