Erasmus price
The Erasmus Prize , named after Erasmus von Rotterdam , is awarded annually to people or institutions that have made an extremely important contribution in the cultural, social or sociological field. The prize, endowed with 150,000 euros, is awarded by the Dutch Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.
Award winners
- 1958: The Austrian people
- 1959: Robert Schuman , Karl Jaspers
- 1960: Marc Chagall , Oskar Kokoschka
- 1962: Romano Guardini
- 1963: Martin Buber
- 1964: Union Académique Internationale
- 1965: Charlie Chaplin , Ingmar Bergman
- 1966: Herbert Read , René Huyghe
- 1967: Jan Tinbergen
- 1968: Henry Moore
- 1969: Gabriel Marcel , Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- 1970: Hans Scharoun
- 1971: Olivier Messiaen
- 1972: Jean Piaget
- 1973: Claude Lévi-Strauss
- 1974: Ninette de Valois , Maurice Béjart
- 1975: Ernst Gombrich , Willem Sandberg
- 1976: Amnesty International , René David
- 1977: Werner Kaegi , Jean Monnet
- 1978: puppet theater
- La Marionettistica by the Napoli brothers
- Țăndărica by Margareta Niculescu
- Théatre du Papier by Yves Joly
- Bread and Puppet Theater by Peter Schumann
- 1979: Die Zeit , Neue Zürcher Zeitung
- 1980: Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Gustav Leonhardt
- 1981: Jean Prouvé
- 1982: Edward Schillebeeckx
- 1983: Raymond Aron , Isaiah Berlin , Leszek Kołakowski , Marguerite Yourcenar
- 1984: Massimo Pallottino
- 1985: Paul Delouvrier
- 1986: Václav Havel
- 1987: Alexander King
- 1988: Jacques Ledoux
- 1989: International Commission of Jurists
- 1990: Sir Grahame Clark
- 1991: Bernard Haitink
- 1992: Simon Wiesenthal , Archivo General de Indias
- 1993: Peter Stein
- 1994: Sigmar Polke
- 1995: Renzo Piano
- 1996: William Hardy McNeill
- 1997: Jacques Delors
- 1998: Mauricio Kagel
- 1998: Peter Sellars
- 1999: Mary Robinson
- 2000: Hans van Manen
- 2001: Adam Michnik , Claudio Magris
- 2002: Bernd and Hilla Becher
- 2003: Alan Davidson
- 2004: Abdolkarim Sorusch , Sadiq al-Azm and Fatema Mernissi
- 2005: Simon Schaffer , Steven Shapin
- 2006: Pierre Bernard
- 2007: Péter Forgács
- 2008: Ian Buruma
- 2009: Antonio Cassese , Benjamin Ferencz
- 2010: José Antonio Abreu
- 2011: Joan Busquets
- 2012: Daniel Dennett
- 2013: Jürgen Habermas
- 2014: Frie Leysen
- 2015: The Wikipedia community
- 2016: AS Byatt
- 2017: Michèle Lamont
- 2018: Barbara Ehrenreich
- 2019: John Adams
- 2020: Grayson Perry
Web links
- Official website (English, Dutch)