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The Prix Pierre Savard, awarded by the Conseil International d’Études Canadiennes/International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS), was presented to Professor Lüsebrink during a ceremony at York University in Toronto on 25 June 2026.
The following text has been machine translated from the German with no human editing.
The Pierre Savard Prize honours the work of Professor Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of French-speaking Canadians. The prize is awarded annually to recognise and promote excellent academic monographs on a Canadian topic by members and associate members of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS). The ICCS comprises 28 academic associations for Canadian studies worldwide.
For his biography of the French-Canadian journalist and intellectual Paul-Marc Sauvalle (1857–1920), Professor Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink was already awarded the ‘Prix d’Histoire du Gouverneur Général du Canada’ – one of Canada’s highest academic honours – in January of this year. In this biography of a key figure of the 19th and early 20th centuries, published in November 2024 by the ‘Presses de l’Université de Montréal’, Lüsebrink links his subject’s life story to the global political events of his time, thereby making an important contribution to research into Canadian history.
Further information on the biography and the ‘Governor General’s History Prize’ can be found in the following press release: https://www.uni-saarland.de/aktuell/professor-hans-juergen-luesebrink-erhaelt-hohe-wissenschaftliche-auszeichnung-kanadas-43805.html
Further details on the book ‘Paul-Marc Sauvalle (1857–1920) – Committed Journalist and Cosmopolitan French-Canadian Intellectual’ (Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2024) can be found at: https://www.histoirecanada.ca/prix/prix-d-histoire-du-gouverneur-general/anciens-laureats/2025/hans-jurgen-lusebrink
Questions answered by:
Professor Emeritus Dr Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Tel.: +49 (0)681 302-3502
Email: luesebrink(at)mx.uni-saarland.de
https://www.uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/luesebrink.html
