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The Alfred Grosser Classroom

The Alfred Grosser Classroom honors Alfred Grosser, professor of Politics at the Bologna Center from 1955 through 1973, one of the longest serving professors at the Bologna Center. Born in Germany, he moved to France in 1933 where he completed his studies in Political Science focusing on Germany and Franco-German relations. During his long and successful career he has worked both in academia and journalism.

Grosser is professor emeritus at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris and president of the Center for Information and Research in Contemporary Germany (CIRAC). He was formerly the director of studies and research at the Fondation Nationale de Sciences Politiques (1956-1992), professor of Politics at the École Polytechnique (1965-1995) and at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (1961-66 and 1986-88), vice president of the Association Internationale de Science Politique (1970-1973), and Kratter Visiting Professor of Modern European History at Stanford University (1964-65). Grosser also taught in Beijing in 1987, at Keio University of Tokyo in 1992 and in Singapore in 1994. GrosserÕs career in journalism began in 1965. He was political columnist for Le Monde, La Croix and Ouest-France.

Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur et de L'ordre du MÉrite de la RÉpublique fÉdÉrale d'Allemagne, Grosser has been awarded numerous prestigious awards for his academic and political activity. Among these are the The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (1975), Grand prix de l'AcadÉmie des Sciences morales et politiques (1998), Prix de l'humanisme de l'Association des langues anciennes (2003), Honoris Causa Degree from the Aston University in Birmingham, UK (2001) and the Prix du Collège Abraham Geiger de formation des Rabbins d'Europe (2004) from the European University in Minsk.

He is the author of many books including, La France semblable et différente (2005); l'Allemagne de Berlin, différente et semblable (2007, revised edition); Les Fruits de leur arbre: regard athée sur les Chrétiens (2001, 2005 translated edition); Une vie de Français (mémoires, 1997); Les IdentitÉs difficiles (1996); Le Crime et la MÉmoire (1989 and 1991); Affaires extÉrieures, la politique de la France 1944-1989 (1984 and 1989); Les Occidentaux (1989, revised edition); Deutschland in Europa (1998); Was ich denke (1995); and Mein Deutschland (1996, revised edition).

Naneen and Axel Neubohn, Bologna Center alumni from the Class of 1963 and students of Professor Alfred Grosser, decided to honor him by naming the Alfred Grosser classroom at the Center.