Montaigne Prize
The Montaigne Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS has been awarded annually since 1968 by the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen to cultural achievements (art, urban development, landscape design, humanities, folklore) by people from the Romanesque cultural area. It was recently endowed with 20,000 euros (and an additional 11,000 euros for a scholarship). In 2006 he was discontinued. It was named after Michel de Montaigne .
Award winners
- 1968 Raymond Aron
- 1969 Piero Bargellini , Mayor of Florence, Senator
- 1970 Georges Poulet
- 1971 Salvador Espriu
- 1972 Philippe Jaccottet
- 1973 René Maheu , Director General of UNESCO
- 1974 Vittorino Nemesio
- 1975 Italo Siciliano
- 1976 Pedro Laín Entralgo
- 1977 Léon-Ernest Halkin , Belgian historian
- 1978 Yves Bonnefoy
- 1979 Jeanne Hersch
- 1980 Virgilio Mortari , musician
- 1981 Miguel Torga
- 1982 Don José María Soler García , Spanish archaeologist
- 1983 Gerard Mortier
- 1984 Rena Remond
- 1985 Vittore Branca
- 1986 Alain Dufour
- 1987 Mariano Feio , agronomist, geographer, Lisbon
- 1988 Martin de Riquer
- 1989 Charles Bertin
- 1990 Jacques Juilliard , historian
- 1991 Vincenzo Cappelletti
- 1992 Bertil Galland
- 1993 Julio Pomar
- 1994 Cristóbal Halffter , Spanish conductor and composer
- 1995 Liliane Wouters
- 1996 Hugues Gall , director of the Paris opera houses
- 1997 Tiziano Rossi , poet, Milan
- 1998 Jean-Jacques Rapin , music teacher, head of the Lausanne Conservatory
- 1999 Nuro T. Cordeiro Ferreira , Lisbon, doctor, humanist
- 2000 Juan Pablo Fusi , contemporary historian, Madrid
- 2001 Bernard Foccroulle , director of the Brussels Opera
- 2002 Mona Ozouf , historian
- 2003 Ermanno Olmi
- 2004 Antonio Barreto , sociologist, Portugal
- 2005 Franco Cavalli , oncologist, Ascona
- 2006 Pedro J. Ramirez , editor of the daily newspaper El Mundo , Madrid
literature
- Eva Mellinger, Frank Baasner: The Montaigne Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation 1968–2000, Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2003