Pierre Bertaux
Encyclopedia
Pierre Bertaux was a noted Resistant and French Germanist. While holding administrative positions, he also wrote on Friedrich Hölderlin
. He participated in the French resistance (in Toulouse
where he instaured Charles De Gaulle
's authority during the liberation of France) and was, after the war, a high French police officer.
In 1968 he founded an Institute for Germanistics at the New Sorbonne
in Asnières
. In 1970 he received the Goethe-Medaille, and in 1975 the Heinrich-Heine-Preis of the city of Düsseldorf
.
He had three sons, two of whom have become renowned academics on their own right: Daniel Bertaux
, Jean-Loup Bertaux
German
Friedrich Hölderlin
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his...
. He participated in the French resistance (in Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
where he instaured Charles De Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
's authority during the liberation of France) and was, after the war, a high French police officer.
In 1968 he founded an Institute for Germanistics at the New Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
in Asnières
Asnières-sur-Seine
Asnières-sur-Seine is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France, along the river Seine. It is located from the center of Paris.-Name:...
. In 1970 he received the Goethe-Medaille, and in 1975 the Heinrich-Heine-Preis of the city of Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
.
He had three sons, two of whom have become renowned academics on their own right: Daniel Bertaux
Daniel Bertaux
Daniel Bertaux is a French sociologist who is best known of initiating a research approach to use and study biographies in sociology. A second important field of study has been social mobility from which he moved into life histories as a "better" approach to study the personal destinies of people...
, Jean-Loup Bertaux
Work
French- Hölderlin, Essai de biographie intérieure, Paris, Hachette, 1936
- La mutation humaine, 1964
- La libération de Toulouse et de sa région, éd. Hachette, 1973
- Hölderlin ou le temps d'un poète, Paris, Gallimard, 1983
- Mémoires interrompus par Pierre Bertaux, Hansgerd Schulte, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2000 ISBN 2910212149
- Un normalien à Berlin, lettres 1927 1933
German
- Friedrich Hölderlin. Frankfurt/Main 1981 und 2000
- Hölderlin und die Französische Revolution. Frankfurt/Main 1969, Berlin 1990
- Afrika. Von der Vorgeschichte bis zu den Staaten der Gegenwart. Frankfurt/M. 1966
- Mutation der Menschheit - Diagnosen und Prognosen. Frankfurt/M. 1963