Pierre Bertaux

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Pierre Bertaux (born 8 October 1907 in Lyon; died 14 August 1986 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine) was a noted French Germanist. While holding administrative positions, he also wrote on Friedrich Hölderlin.

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.

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