Karl-Jaspert-Price posthumously awarded to Rudolf G. Wagner

Heidelberg University awards the Karl-Jaspert-Price toghether with the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the city of Heidelberg. Prof. Rudolf Wagner, founding member and former director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context," sadly passed away only a few days after the announcement that he would be this year's receipient of the prestigious price. Wagner will thus be posthumously awarded with the Karl-Jaspert-Prince to honour not only his internationally respected research in general, but particularly his "vision of transculturality" as a ruling principle for the humanities and social science. The award ceremony will be replace by a celebratory hour of remembrance and will take place on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm at the Alte Aula of Heidelberg University.

You can find the invitation to the hour of remembrance
here.
You can find Heidelberg University's press release on the Karl-Jaspert-Prince for Prof. Wagner
here.
Please find the HCTS obituary on Prof. Wagner here.