The Erasmus Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch non-profit organization, to individuals or institutions that have made notable contributions to European culture, society, or social science. The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation was founded on 23 June 1958 by Prince Bernhard. The amount of the prize is €150,000.

Prize winners

• 2003 - Alan Davidson
• 2002 - Bernd and Hilla Becher
• 2001 - Claudio Magris
• 2001 - Adam Michnik
• 2000 - Hans van Manen
• 1999 - Mary Robinson
• 1998 - Peter Sellars
• 1998 - Mauricio Kagel
• 1997 - Jacques Delors
• 1996 - William McNeill
• 1995 - Renzo Piano
• 1994 - Sigmar Polke
• 1993 - Peter Stein
• 1992 - Simon Wiesenthal
• 1992 - Archivo General de Indias
• 1991 - Bernard Haitink
• 1990 - Sir Grahame Clark
• 1989 - International Commission of Jurists
• 1988 - Jacques Ledoux
• 1987 - Alexander King
• 1986 - Václav Havel
• 1985 - Paul Delouvrier
• 1984 - Massimo Pallottino
• 1983 - Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Leszek Kolakowski, Marguerite Yourcenar
• 1982 - Edward Schillebeeckx
• 1981 - Jean Prouvé
• 1980 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt
• 1979 - Die Zeit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• 1978 - Poppentheater
• 1977 - Werner Kaegi , Jean Monnet
• 1976 - Amnesty International, René David
• 1975 - Ernst Gombrich, Willem Sandberg
• 1974 - Ninette de Valois, Maurice Béjart
• 1973 - Claude Lévi-Strauss
• 1972 - Jean Piaget
• 1971 - Olivier Messiaen
• 1970 - Hans Scharoun
• 1969 - Gabriel Marcel, Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
• 1968 - Henry Moore
• 1967 - Jan Tinbergen
• 1966 - Herbert Read, René Huyghe
• 1965 - Charles Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman
• 1964 - Union Academique Internationale
• 1963 - Martin Buber
• 1962 - Romano Guardini
• 1960 - Marc Chagall, Oscar Kokoschka
• 1959 - Robert Schuman, Karl Jaspers
• 1958 - The People of Austria

External link

• Erasmus Prize website