Princely Academy of Bucharest

The Princely Academy of Bucharest (Romanian: Academia Domnească din București, Greek: Αυθεντική Ακαδημία Βουκουρεστίου) was an institution of higher education, active from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 19th century.

From 1776, however, by the decree of Ipsilanti, the studies in the Academy were organised in 5 cycles, each of them lasting 3 years.

In the third cycle the students studied poetics, rhetoric, Aristotle’s ethics, Italian and French.

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.