Erasmus Prize - Prize Winners

Prize Winners

• 1958 – The People of Austria
• 1959 – Robert Schuman, Karl Jaspers
• 1960 – Marc Chagall, Oscar Kokoschka
• 1962 – Romano Guardini
• 1963 – Martin Buber
• 1964 – Union Académique Internationale
• 1965 – Charles Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman
• 1966 – Herbert Read, René Huyghe
• 1967 – Jan Tinbergen
• 1968 – Henry Moore
• 1969 – Gabriel Marcel, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• 1970 – Hans Scharoun
• 1971 – Olivier Messiaen
• 1972 – Jean Piaget
• 1973 – Claude Lévi-Strauss
• 1974 – Ninette de Valois, Maurice Béjart
• 1975 – Ernst Gombrich, Willem Sandberg
• 1976 – Amnesty International, René David
• 1977 – Werner Kaegi, Jean Monnet
• 1978 – Theme puppetry
  • La Marionettistica of the Napoli brothers
  • Ţăndărică of Margareta Niculescu
  • Théatre du Papier of Yves Joly
  • Bread and Puppet of Peter Schumann
• 1979 – Die Zeit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• 1980 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt
• 1981 – Jean Prouvé
• 1982 – Edward Schillebeeckx
• 1983 – Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Leszek Kołakowski, Marguerite Yourcenar
• 1984 – Massimo Pallottino
• 1985 – Paul Delouvrier
• 1986 – Václav Havel
• 1987 – Alexander King
• 1988 – Jacques Ledoux
• 1989 – International Commission of Jurists
• 1990 – Sir Grahame Clark
• 1991 – Bernard Haitink
• 1992 – Archivo General de Indias
• 1992 – Simon Wiesenthal
• 1993 – Peter Stein
• 1994 – Sigmar Polke
• 1995 – Renzo Piano
• 1996 – William Hardy McNeill
• 1997 – Jacques Delors
• 1998 – Mauricio Kagel
• 1998 – Peter Sellars
• 1999 – Mary Robinson
• 2000 – Hans van Manen
• 2001 – Adam Michnik
• 2001 – Claudio Magris
• 2002 – Bernd and Hilla Becher
• 2003 – Alan Davidson
• 2004 – Abdolkarim Soroush, Sadik Al-Azm and Fatema Mernissi
• 2005 – Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin
• 2006 – Pierre Bernard
• 2007 – Peter Forgacs
• 2008 – Ian Buruma
• 2009 – Antonio Cassese and Benjamin Ferencz
• 2010 – José Antonio Abreu
• 2011 – Joan Busquets
• 2012 – Daniel Dennett