Wolf Lepenies#
| Membership Number: | 254 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bbaw.de/en/academy/members/817 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor (emeritus) for sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin
- since 2001 Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg
- 1986 - 2001 Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin from 1986 to 2001
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology
Honours and Awards
- Member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
- Member of the Academia Europaea (London)
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Member of the Académie Universelle des Cultures (Paris)
- Member of the Academy of the Arts (Berlin)
- Member of the German Academy of the Sciences Leopoldina
- the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for French-German Academic Cooperation
- the Culture Prize of the City of Koblenz
- the Karl Vossler Prize
- the Theodor Heuss Prize
- the Leibniz Medal of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities
- the Prix Chartier 2003 of the Société Littéraire du Prix Chartier (Paris)
- Honorary Doctor of the Sorbonne in Paris
- Officer of the French Legion of Honor
- Bearer of the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
