Pierre Bertaux - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Pierre Bertaux
- Pierre Bertaux (8 October 1907 in Lyon – 14 August 1986 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine) was a noted French resistance fighter and scholar of German literature.
- While holding administrative positions, he also wrote on Friedrich Hölderlin.
- He participated in the French resistance in Toulouse, where he imposed Charles De Gaulle's authority during the liberation of France.
- After the war he was a high-ranking police officer. In 1968 he founded a Department of German Language and Literature at the New Sorbonne in Asnières.
- In 1970 he received the Goethe Medal, and in 1975 the Heinrich Heine prize of the city of Düsseldorf. He had three sons, two of whom have become renowned academics on their own right: Daniel Bertaux and Jean-Loup Bertaux.
