"Dagtoglu precursor"

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Prodromos Dagtoglou is Professor Emeritus of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He was born on 24 December 1929 in Athens, the largest of the three children, Demetrius and Olga Dagtoglou, the genus Karypidis. He has been married since 1963 to English lawyer Genette Malet de Carteret and have three children.

Prodromos Dagtoglou completed his circular studies in Athens with excellent results. Since 1947 he studied law at the Law School of the University of Athens and also graduated with honors in 1951. In 1954 he became a lawyer for Athens.

In autumn 1956 he went on an IKY scholarship to Heidelberg, Germany. In December 1959, completing his doctoral thesis with honors, he became a doctor of law.

Academic career
In December 1961, he was declared a public law deputy of Heidelberg University Law School—his inaugural speech was on the essence and limits of press freedom—and early 1962 received a teaching order.

In 1964 he was also declared deputy professor of administrative law of the University of Athens Law School, where he taught for three years, sharing the academic year between Athens and Heidelberg.

Following the imposition of the dictatorship of 21 April 1967 and on the occasion of the intervention of the then regime in the teaching material of the course of the History of Law, the capital, the one related to the French Revolution, leaves Greece and leaves abroad, judging that it could no longer work freely as a publicist in Greece. He resigned from his candidacy at the seat of public law at the University of Thessaloniki, which was to be judged fifteen days later and remained abroad until the fall of dictatorship in 1974.

In 1967 he became an extraordinary professor of public law at Heidelberg University. Overall he taught in Heidelberg, as a deputy and then as an extraordinary professor, constitutional and administrative law for a seven-year period 1962-1968.

In February 1968 he was elected a regular professor at the Regensburg University Law School at the seat of public, comparative and European Community law. These branches he taught there for eight years (1968–1976). In 1971–1972 he was Dean of the Regensburg University Law School.

After the fall of dictatorship he was elected a regular professor of administrative law at the Law School of the University of Athens. He took office in 1976 and until his departure from active service and his proclamation as Professor Emeritus in 1997, he taught alongside administrative and constitutional law (especially individual rights) and European Community law.

Since 1981 he has been an honorary professor of Regensburg University and Senior Honorary Lecturer at University College, University of London. From 1981 to 2000 he was a visiting professor at the Europa-Institut of Panep