page_title: Princely Academy of Bucharest
section_title: Organisation and curriculum
hierarchical_section_title: Princely Academy of Bucharest / Organisation and curriculum
caption_attribution_description: English: Greek scholar and educator Constantinos Vardalachos (1755-1830)
context_page_description: The Princely Academy of Bucharest was an institution of higher education, active from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 19th century.
context_section_description: We do not know very much about the Academy’s structure before the reforms of Ipsilanti. From 1776, however, by the decree of Ipsilanti, the studies in the Academy were organised in 5 cycles, each of them lasting 3 years. The first three-year cycle was dedicated to the study of the Greek and Latin grammar. The following was dedicated to the study of Greek, Latin, and classic literature. In the third cycle the students studied poetics, rhetoric, Aristotle’s ethics, Italian and French. 
  In the fourth cycle the arithmetic and the geometry, as well as the history and the geometry were taught. Finally, the last cycle was dedicated to the study of philosophy and astronomy. If at the beginning the teaching was done mostly after the commentaries of Korydaleos to the works of Aristotle, later the courses took a modern orientation. The natural sciences, the philosophy, were taught after occidental handbooks, many of them translated in Greek.
caption: Constantinos Vardalachos; Principal from 1805 to 1815.
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