Hendrik Brugmans

Hendrik Brugmans 1967

Hendrik Brugmans , also Henri Brugmans , (born December 13, 1906 in Amsterdam , † March 12, 1997 in Bruges ) was a Dutch Romance scholar and politician. Brugmans is considered an important pioneer of the European movement .

Life

Hendrik Brugmans was born as the son of the historian Hajo Brugmans and his wife Maria Keizer. He first studied French literary history at the University of Amsterdam , where he received his doctorate in 1934 under Etienne Guilhou . Then he worked as a high school teacher. From 1948 to 1950 he taught French literature at the University of Utrecht .

During the Second World War he was a member of the Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij in the Dutch parliament . In 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo . After his release in 1944, he joined the Dutch resistance movement.

After the end of the war he was a co-founder of the Union of European Federalists , whose first president he was elected. At the Hague European Congress he gave the opening lecture on May 7, 1948. In 1950 he founded the College of Europe in Bruges , which he headed as rector until 1972.

Honors

"In recognition of his tireless work for European unification and in appreciation of the difficult task he set himself as the founder of the European University in Bruges," he was awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen on May 3, 1951 as a "courageous pioneer united Europe ” .

Fonts

In the melting pot of history. 14 stations of European development . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1966.

literature

Angelina Hermanns: Hendrik Brugmans (1906–1997) . In: Winfried Böttcher (ed.): Classics of European Thought. Ideas for peace and Europe from 700 years of European cultural history . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, pp. 655–661.

Footnotes

^ Klaus Brummer : The Council of Europe. An introduction . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15710-8 , p. 22.

Web links

Literature by and about Hendrik Brugmans in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Hendrik Brugmans interviewed in the online archive "Österreich am Wort" of the Austrian Media Library (Salzburg Night Studio)

personal data
SURNAME	Brugmans, Hendrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brugmans, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch Romanist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1997
Place of death	Bruges

[1] Klaus Brummer : The Council of Europe. An introduction . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15710-8 , p. 22.