- Karl-Vossler-Preis
From 1984 to 2002, the Free State of Bavaria biennially awarded its Karl-Vossler-Preis, named after
Karl Vossler , to authors ofscientific literature of distinguished literary quality written in German. The award was aimed at fostering the status of German as an academic language and came with a prize money of 25,000 marks until 2000, [http://www.wissenschaftsministerium.bayern.de/pressearchiv/2000/10/okt151.html] and 12,500 Euros in 2002. [http://www.stmwfk.bayern.de/pressearchiv/2002/07/juli150.html] It alternated with theJean-Paul-Preis , another literary prize biennially awarded by Bavaria since 1983.Laureates
* 1984:
Hubert Markl , biologist
* 1986:Josef Isensee , jurist
* 1988:Wolf Lepenies , sociologist
* 1990:Friedrich Cramer , biochemist
* 1992:Harald Weinrich , linguist
* 1994:Hans-Martin Gauger , philologist and linguist
* 1996:Arnold Esch , historian
* 1998:Peter Gülke , musicologist
* 2000:Dieter Borchmeyer , philologist and dramatician
* 2002:Otfried Höffe , philosopherReferences
* [http://www.stmwfk.bayern.de/kunst/literaturpreise.html “Literaturpreise des Freistaates Bayern”] at the website of the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts (German)
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