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François Sauzey
26 September 1950
8 March 2011

François Sauzey (BC71, France) was a man of immense literary and political passion who moved easily between France and the United States. To those who knew him well, he was essentially a "Frenchman who loved the United States."

His career included being spokesperson and press officer for the The Trilateral Commission, a private organization established in 1973 to foster closer cooperation among North America, Europe and Japan. The fact that he belonged to such a group (for thirty years)—one that shaped ideas on international and democratic thought and was founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski in the United States at the height of the Cold Warsays a lot about Sauzey.

Sauzey was also editor of Trialogue: The Trilateral Commission's Quarterly of American-European-Japanese Affairs in New York City for many years, sharing his deep knowledge of international domestic and foreign policy.

Among other things, he was a translator of the work of American modernist poet, Ezra Pound. Sauzey had the unique ability to shift from discussing the intricate complexities of the Pound poem, The Cantos, to discussing universal truths he could find, for example, in a television episode of The Sopranos.

He was also a writer. Sauzey wrote Anti-Prince in English (published in Italian in 1996), which explores the tension (trauma!) with which one confronts the crumbling world of the old nation state in this globalized world.

SAIS Bologna was a landmark for Sauzey. Here, he thrived on his discovery and love of the United States and Italyboth pillars in his professional and intellectual lifeand made life-long friends (including meeting his beloved wife Anne, an American artist). Bologna was the city where Anti-Prince was first published in 1996. The first edition of Anti-Prince in French will be published by Les Éditions Perrin in November 2011.

Sauzey will be remembered as a man of ideas, culture, a writer, a poet—and always a wonderful conversationalist.

His sister-in law, Eva Trezza (BC71/DC72, Italy), notes, "The first impression François Sauzey made on me was that of someone who was so sensitive as to see beyond what most of us that year in Bologna could see...that impression stayed with me throughout his life. I believe he had the soul of a poet, and therefore understood as few others do, the intelligence of words…This sensitivity enriched his life and ours."

Sauzey's classmate Martin Gilman (BC71, U.S.) recalls, "He was, in my view, unique among men-a true character of the Enlightenment in a book that he composed himself."

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Hans Schoenberg
14 March 1920
13 March 2011

The Bologna Center was a remarkably special place for Hans Schoenberg (BC55/56, Germany), a proud member of the first class of students in 1955.

Hans passed away on a Sunday in March surrounded by his loving family. According to his son, Michael, Schoenberg lived by the motto res severa verum gaudium. "In contrast to this sober motto, he deeply enjoyed life: spending time with friends, good cuisine and wine, and—despite an extremely difficult upbringing—remained optimistic until the very end," recalls Michael.

Schoenberg's youth and early life was overshadowed by the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933. Being half Jewish (his father was Jewish and later killed in Auschwitz in 1944) he was not allowed to finish German high school and was eventually arrested and forced to work in various camps in East Germany.

For Schoenberg, the end of World War II meant liberation from Nazi oppression. After working with the U.S.-Military Government in Greater Hessen (Germany), he immigrated to the United States and enrolled as a student at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. After graduating from Wittenberg magna cum laude, he became interested in political science, and began studying at SAIS and the Bologna Center in 1955.

Together with his family, Schoenberg then moved to Munich where he worked at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a broadcaster funded by the U.S. Congress that provided news, information, and analysis to countries "where the free flow of information was either banned by government authorities or not fully developed," until 1982. During his long career he was often invited to deliver lectures and seminars as a visiting professor at universities throughout Europe and the U.S. His Ph.D. thesis from SAIS was published as book in 1967 titled Germans from the East: Resettlement of German refugees during and after WWII.

Schoenberg's son, Michael, also has fond memories of Bologna. "In 1955 I was the youngest Bologna Center 'student' (four years old). The Center, the Italian kindergarten I attended, and the city of Bologna will always be special to me," says Professor Michael H. Schoenberg, M.D., FRCS, who is currently Chairman of the Surgical Department, Rotkreuzklinikum München.

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