Denis de Rougemont

Who was Denis de Rougemont?

Denis de Rougemont was a Swiss writer, cultural theorist, and European federalist, who wrote in French.

He studied at the University of Neuchâtel, and then moved to Paris in 1930. There he wrote for and edited various publications, associating with the personalist groupings and the non-conformists of the 1930s. He founded in Geneva the "Centre Européen de la Culture" in 1950 and in 1963 the "Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Européennes". Probably his most influential work is Love in the Western World.

The 1989–1990 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.