Pierre Bertaux

Who was Pierre Bertaux?

Pierre Bertaux was a noted Resistant and French Germanist. While holding administrative positions, he also wrote on Friedrich Hölderlin. He participated in the French resistance and was, after the war, a high French police officer.

In 1968 he founded an Institute for Germanistics at the New Sorbonne in Asnières. In 1970 he received the Goethe-Medaille, and in 1975 the Heinrich-Heine-Preis of the city of Düsseldorf. He had three sons, two of whom have become renowned academics on their own right: Daniel Bertaux, Jean-Loup Bertaux