# Pierre Bertaux

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**Pierre Bertaux** (8 October 1907 in [Lyon](/source/Lyon) – 14 August 1986 in [Saint-Cloud](/source/Saint-Cloud), [Hauts-de-Seine](/source/Hauts-de-Seine)) was a noted French resistance fighter and scholar of [German literature](/source/Germanist). While holding administrative positions, he also wrote on [Friedrich Hölderlin](/source/Friedrich_H%C3%B6lderlin). He participated in the French resistance in [Toulouse](/source/Toulouse), where as a [Commissioner of the Republic](/source/Commissioner_of_the_Republic_(Provisional_Government)) he imposed [Charles de Gaulle](/source/Charles_de_Gaulle)'s authority during the [liberation of France](/source/Liberation_of_France). After the war he was a high-ranking police officer.[1]

In 1968 he founded a Department of [German Language and Literature](/source/German_studies) at the New [Sorbonne](/source/University_of_Paris) in [Asnières](/source/Asni%C3%A8res-sur-Seine). In 1970 he received the [Goethe Medal](/source/Goethe_Medal), and in 1975 the [Heinrich Heine prize](/source/Heinrich_Heine_prize) of the city of [Düsseldorf](/source/D%C3%BCsseldorf). He had three sons, two of whom have become renowned academics on their own right: [Daniel Bertaux](/source/Daniel_Bertaux) and [Jean-Loup Bertaux](/source/Jean-Loup_Bertaux).

## Work

**French**

- *Hölderlin, Essai de biographie intérieure*, Paris, Hachette, 1936
- La mutation humaine, 1964
- La libération de Toulouse et de sa région, éd. Hachette, 1973
- *Hölderlin ou le temps d'un poète*, Paris, Gallimard, 1983
- *Mémoires interrompus* par Pierre Bertaux, Hansgerd Schulte, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2000 ISBN 2-910212-14-9
- Un normalien à Berlin, lettres 1927 1933

**German**

- *Friedrich Hölderlin*. Frankfurt/Main 1981 und 2000
- *Hölderlin und die Französische Revolution*. Frankfurt/Main 1969, Berlin 1990
- *Afrika. Von der Vorgeschichte bis zu den Staaten der Gegenwart*. Frankfurt/M. 1966
- *Mutation der Menschheit - Diagnosen und Prognosen*. Frankfurt/M. 1963

## References

1. Theodore Harold White (1953). "Pierre Bertaux". *fire in the ashes*. New York: William Sloane Ass. pp. 103–118. [OCLC 1124566992](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124566992)

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