Kurt Flasch (born 12 March 1930,

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...

) is a German

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, who works mainly as a historian of

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and of

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. Flasch was professor at the

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. He was / is a member of several German and international Academies. In 2000, he was awarded the

Sigmund Freud Prize The Sigmund Freud Prize or Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose (German ''Sigmund Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa'') is a German literary award named after Sigmund Freud and awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (Ge ...

by the

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Awards and recognitions

2000 * Honorary Doctorate from University of Lucerne 2002 *

Hannah Arendt Prize The Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (german: Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken, links=no) is a prize awarded to individuals representing the tradition of political theorist Hannah Arendt, especially in regard to totalitarianis ...

2009 * Honorary Doctorate from

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2010 * Joseph Breitbach Prize 2012

Works

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ''Katholische Wegbereiter des Nationalsozialismus. Michael Schmaus, Joseph Lortz, Josef Pieper. Essay.'' Frankfurt, Vittorio Klostermann, 2021, ISBN 978-3-465-02706-5.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flasch, Kurt 1930 births Living people 20th-century German philosophers 21st-century German philosophers German male writers Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities