Alexandros Svolos [SEP] place of death
Alexandros Svolos
Alexandros Svolos (; 1892, Kruševo, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – 22 February 1956, Athens, Greece) was a prominent Greek legal expert, who also served as president of the Political Committee of National Liberation, a Resistance-based government during the Axis occupation of Greece.
Early life.
Svolos was born in 1892 in Kruševo, now in the Republic of North Macedonia, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied law at Constantinople in 1911-1912, and from there went on to
Kartalis until his death in 1956. He was elected to Parliament for Thessaloniki in 1950 and 1956, but died three days after the latter.
Academic career.
Alexandros Svolos was among the most prominent experts on constitutional law in Greece, and held strong democratic and socialist views, which put him often at odds with the Greek establishment of the time.
His very first academic treatise was his doctoral thesis in 1915, where he examined the constitutional right of workers to form unions. His expertise in labour matters was recognized