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Hélène Ahrweiler
Historian
President of the University of Europe
Former Rector of the Paris Academy
Biography
Hélène Ahrweiler has a doctorate degree in history and classics. She has been a professor at the Sorbonne, Faculty of Arts in Paris, since 1967. She was vice-chancellor of the University of Paris I (1976-1981) then rector of the Académie de Paris (1982-1989) and Vice-president of the French National Education Council (1983-1989).
She is also a former President of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (1982-1989) and the Centre Georges Pompidou (1989-1991).
At the moment she is President of the University of Europe, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, the Athens Academy and the Berlin and Bulgarian Academies of Science, and an associate member of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Hélène Ahrweiler is also a UNESCO social and human sciences expert.
Finally, she is the President of the European Cultural Centre at Delphi and of the National Theatre of Greece.
She has written many works on Europe and on Byzantium (and is moreover Honorary president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies) and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of London, Harvard, Belgrade, New York, Haïfa, Lima, New Brunswick, by the American University of Paris and by the Athens School of Higher Studies in Political and Social Sciences.