Jacques Freymond (5 August 1911 – 4 May 1998) was a

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. He was born in

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, and studied in his hometown as well as in

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and

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. He worked in the upper secondary school from 1935 to 1942. From 1943 to 1955 he was a professor in modern history at the

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. He was also a writer in ''

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'' from 1946. In 1949–50 he was a guest scholar at

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and Columbia. He spent his later career at the

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. He chaired the

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from 1964 to 1967. Among his seminal works was the 800-page work ''La Première Internationale'' on the

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. This was co-published in 1962 together with

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, Henri Burgelin and Miklós Molnár. Freymond was a member of the

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. He served as vice president from 1965 to 1971, and also acting president from February to June 1969.

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1911 births 1998 deaths Writers from Lausanne Swiss political scientists 20th-century Swiss historians Swiss male writers Academic staff of the University of Geneva Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Red Cross personnel 20th-century male writers 20th-century political scientists {{Switzerland-academic-bio-stub