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Hans Weiler


Hans N. Weiler Prof Dr Hans N Weiler DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

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Hans N. Weiler is a Professor Emeritus of Education and Political Science at Stanford University, and a Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics and former rector of the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

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Born September 13, 1934, in Krefeld/Germany, Weiler is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He is married and has two sons.

Weiler graduated from the Hochschule St. Georgen, Frankfurt/Main in Philosophy (1956) and went on to study Philosophy, Political Science, and Education at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau, where he graduated in 1960, followed by a stay at the University of London's Institute of Commonwealth Studies and School of Oriental and African Studies.

In 1962 he took up a position as Research Fellow and Chairman of the Africa Division at the University of Freiburg's Arnold Bergstraesser Institute where he obtained a Dr. phil. in Political Science (1965).

That same year Weiler became Assistant Professor of Education and Political Science at Stanford University (Associate Professor as of 1971, full Professor 1979). From 1974-77 he was on leave as Director of the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO) at Paris.

From 1993-99 Weiler was Professor of Comparative Politics and Rektor of the Europa-Universität Viadrina at Frankfurt/Oder.

Awards and honors

  • British Council Postgraduate Research Fellow, University of London, 1960–61
  • Scholar-in-Residence, Institute for German Studies, Indiana University, 1971
  • Academy Associate (to James B. Conant), National Academy of Education, 1972
  • University Fellow, Stanford University, 1979–81
  • Claude Eggertsen Lecture, Comparative and International Education Society, Atlanta, 1983
  • Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1988
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1988–89
  • Research Fellow: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 1990; Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 1991
  • The Lauwerys Memorial Lecture, Comparative Education Society of Europe, Groningen, 1998
  • Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, 1999
  • Honorary Citizenship, City of Frankfurt (Oder), 2000
  • Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2001
  • Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h.c.), Viadrina European University, 2002
  • “Reformer of the Decade Award”, Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE), 2004

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