Robert Picht


Robert Picht was a German academic.

Biography

Son of Professor Georg Picht and his wife Edith Axenfeld, Robert Picht studied sociology and Romance studies at the universities of Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Paris, Madrid and Freiburg.
In 1964 he obtained a Magister Artium degree in French literature in Hamburg. At the Sorbonne in 1972, he passed the exam to earn a Dr. phil. In 1990 he was appointed professor of sociology at the University of Hagen.
From 1965 to 1972 he served at the office of the German Academic Exchange Service in Paris. During this time he was also a lecturer for German language and politics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris.
For 30 years, from 1972 to 2002, he took the position of director at the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg.
He also served as Vice President and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam from 1976 to 1995.
He was rector ad interim of the College of Europe from 2002 to 2003 and vice-rector of the College of Europe campus in Natolin from 2004 to 2007, focusing his scholarly attention on Europe in a globalising world order.

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