Alain Bernheim

Alain Bernheim, born 1931 in Paris, France, lives in Montreux, Switzerland. At the age of twelve he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the infamous deportation camp Drancy, at fifteen he was chosen to represent the "Lycée Janson-de-Sailly" at the "Concours Général" of philosophy. He studied at the Conservatory of Music in Paris, was the first French music student to receive a Fulbright scholarship which allowed him to study further at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA won second Prize together with Vladimir Ashkenazy at the international piano contest in Bucharest in 1953 and gave some 2,000 concerts until 1980. Then he stopped his musical career for health reasons and turned to Masonic research.

In 1986 and 1993 he was awarded the "Norman Spencer Award" by the English premier Lodge of Research Quatuor Coronati Lodge N° 2076, 1997 the "Certificate of Literature" by the Philalethes Society (USA), 2001 the "Albert Gallatin Mackey Scholar Award" by the "Scottish Rite Research Society" (Washington, D.C.) which elected him a Fellow, and 2007 was selected a member of the "Society of Blue Friars". [ [http://bessel.org/sbf.htm "Society of Blue Friars"] Accessed March 28, 2008.]

A Freemason since 1963, he belongs to the Regular Grand Loge of Belgium and to the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina. He was awarded the 33° by the Supreme Council of the United States (Southern Jurisdiction), elected a Chapter Knight of the Great Priory of Belgium and is a member of the Royal Order of Scotland.

He authored "Les Débuts de la Franc-Maçonnerie à Genève et en Suisse" (Slatkine 1994), many entries of the "Encyclopédie de la Franc-Maçonnerie" (Pochotèque 2000), "Réalité Maçonnique" (Alpina Research Group, Lausanne 2007) and some 150 papers issued in French, English and German masonic magazines.

His next book, Une certaine idée de la franc-maçonnerie, came out September 2008 by Dervy, Paris.

External links

* [http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/bernheim3.html The Blue Forget Me Not, Another Side of the Story by W.Bro. Alain Bernheim 33rd]
* [http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/bernheim12.html German Freemasonry and it's Attitudes towards the Nazi Regime, by W. Bro. Alain Bernheim 33rd Degree]

References

* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10F17F83A5C16738DDDA90A94D9405B808AF1D3 The New York Times, Wednesday, January 20, 1960, Page 34, 285 words. Feb. 25 Concert Will Be Benefit For Red Cross; Debut Recital by Alain Bernheim, a French Pianist, Planned]
* [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/267972602.html?dids=267972602:267972602&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Apr+23%2C+1953&author=K.G.R.&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=Alain+Bernheim's+Recital&pqatl=google Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass. Apr 23, 1953. Review by K.G.R. Alain Bernheim's Recital]
* [http://www.rene-guenon.net/bibliographie.htm Loge maçonnique René Guénon, no 76 - Bibliographie] Bibliography includes a listing for Alain Bernheim, Les débuts de la Franc-Maçonnerie à Genève et en Suisse, Slatkine, 1994, 674 pages.