Manfred Osten Explained

Manfred Osten (born 19 January 1938 in Ludwigslust) is a German poet, author, lawyer, former diplomat and cultural historian.

Biography

He escaped to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952. In 1969, he earned a doctorate upon the completion of a thesis concerning the concept of natural law in the early writings of Schelling.[1] He then joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany. His career as a diplomat included postings in France, Cameroon, Chad, Australia, Japan, and Hungary. From 1995 to 2004 he was the Secretary-General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.[2] [3]

He is an honorary Doctor of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Pécs, the University of Bucharest, and the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași.[4] In 1993 he received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government. He is in addition a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.[5] [6] [7] In 2008 he was admitted to the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[8] [9]

Publications

Monographs

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Manfred Osten auf suhrkamp.de.
  2. Web site: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung - Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung . 2022-07-13 . 2020-12-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201201223239/https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/ . dead .
  3. http://www.br-online.de/br-klassik/meine-musik/meine-musik-manfred-osten-diplomat-ID1287828817455.xml{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  4. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-11-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721110042/http://www.humboldt.hu/HN23/Osten.pdf . 2011-07-21 .
  5. http://www.staufen.cn/manfred-osten.html?L=1{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  6. Web site: Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities . 2010-11-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100928015503/http://www.akademienunion.de/adwmainz/english.html . 2010-09-28 .
  7. Web site: Literatur, Musik, Wissenschaft : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz.
  8. http://www.br-online.de/br-klassik/meine-musik/meine-musik-manfred-osten-diplomat-ID1287828817455.xml{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  9. Web site: www.bundespraesident.de: Der Bundespräsident / The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . 2010-11-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101028023912/http://bundespraesident.de/The-role-of-the-Federal-Presid/Work-in-Germany-,11180/The-Order-of-Merit-of-the-Fede.htm . 2010-10-28 . dead .