The Christophe Plantin Prize (French

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: Prix Christoffel Plantin), is a Belgian civilian

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 prize

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, intended to reward a Belgian citizen who resides abroad, who has made significant contributions to cultural

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, artistic or scientific activities.

Named after noted printer Christophe Plantin

Christophe Plantin

Christophe Plantin was an influential Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher.-Life:...

, the prize was created in 1968 on the initiative of:

• Dr. Baron Ludo van Bogaert, doctor
• Baron Roger Avermaete
  Roger Avermaete
  Roger Avermaete was a Belgian writer who wrote in Dutch and French.In 1968, he was part of the cross-arts team which created the Christophe Plantin Prize.-Sources:*...
  
  , writer
• Hugo van Kuyck, architect
• Maurits Naessens, banker
• OJ Van de Perre, industrialist

Funded by voluntary contributions, the prize consists of a 10,000 € fund and a medal

Medal

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 created by Antwerp artist May Néama. On one side the medal has a portrait of Christoffel Plantin, accompanied by his statement: "I have more hope in posteriority than in the current world population." To the reverse is an old picture of Antwerp quays, with a compass and another statement of Plantin: "Labore and Constantia."

Winners

Year	Winner	Art	Resides	Notes
1968	Armand HENNEUSE	Poetry	Lyon Lyon Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
1969	Antoon VOLLEMAERE	Mayan paleography	Bujumbura Bujumbura -Education:The University of Burundi is located in Bujumbura.Hope Africa University is located in BujumburaUniversité du Lac Tanganyika is located in Bujumbura-External links:**...
1970	Albert VAN DEN BRANDEN, S.J.	Theology	Lebanese University Lebanese University The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. Founded in 1951, it has 17 faculties as of 2006 and serves various cultural, religious, and social groups of students and teachers....
1971	Pierre LEON	Music	Bonn Opera
1972	Jean DEVAUX	Arts and Ballet	Guatemala
1973	Jan Yoors Jan Yoors Jan Yoors was a Flemish-American artist, photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, tapestry creator.Yoors was born in Antwerp, Belgium. At the age of 12, he ran away with a group of Romanies, or Gypsies, travelling with them for several months...	Artist	New York City New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
1974	Pierre RIJCKMANS	Sinologist	Australian National University Australian National University The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
1975	Robert VLIEGEN	Music	Osaka College of Music Osaka College of Music is a private university in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1915, and it was chartered as a university in 1958.-External links:*...
1976	Paul HOLDS, S.J.	Languages	India	Author and Bengali translator
1977	Claude ALARD	Sculptor	Bourges Bourges Bourges is a city in central France on the Yèvre river. It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital of the former province of Berry.-History:...
1978	Mgr. Jose RUYSSCHAERT	Religion	Vatican Vatican City Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...	1965 - vice-prefect, Vatican library 1971 - Honorary chaplain to Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...
1979	Professor Dr. Karel MAERTENS	Medicine	University of Kinshasa University of Kinshasa The University of Kinshasa , was one of three universities, along with University of Kisangani and University of Lubumbashi, created following the division of the National University of Zaire...
1980	Professor Pierre van RUTTEN	Ethetics and semantics	University of Ottawa University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...
1981	Henri R. LERIBAUX	Nuclear science	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
1982	Professor B. HENDRICKX	Philosophy	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest Greek university, and the largest university in the Balkans. It was named after the philosopher Aristotle, who was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, about 55 km east of Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia...
1983	Philippe FALISSE	Music	India	traditional music of Dhrupad Dhrupad Dhrupad is a vocal genre in Hindustani classical music, said to be the oldest still in use in that musical tradition. Its name is derived from the words "dhruva" and "pada"...
1984	Charles L. SCHEPENS	Medicine	United States
1985	Edouard VERSTEYLEN	Archeology	Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú
1986	Doctor Gabrielle WILLE	Drug addiction	Universidad del Norte Universidad del Norte, Colombia The Universidad del Norte is the main academic center for higher education in northern Colombia. It was founded in 1966 by a group of businessmen led by Karl C. Parrish in the city of Barranquilla...
1987	Luc CROEGAERT, S.J.	African studies	Africa
1988	Nicole DACOS	Philosophy	Academia Belgica Academia Belgica The Academia Belgica is an academic organization. The goal of the Academy is to promote the cultural, scientific and artistic cooperation between Italy and Belgium....
1989	Doctor Ghislaine GODENNE	Medicine	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
1990	Willem A. Grootaers, C.I.C.M.	Dialect	Fu-jen University	Japanese women
1991	Jan OF YOUR	Philosophy	Academia of Investigaciòn Científica Mexican
1992	Doctor Emile L. Boulpaep	Medicine	Yale University Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
1993	Doctor Marc R. of LEVAL	Medicine	Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is a children's hospital located in London, United Kingdom...
1994	Doctor Lilyan Kesteloot	Culture and litereature of Africa	University of Dakar
1995	Ferdinand of TRAZEGNIES there GRANDA	Lawyer	Ambassador
1998	Doctor Jan Modest Quaegebuer	Medicine	Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
1999	Robert Cailliau Robert Cailliau Robert Cailliau , born 26 January 1947, is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web.-Biography:...		CERN CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...	co-creator of the World Wide Web World Wide Web The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
2000	Professor Lutgarde Buydens	Pharmacology	University of Nijmegen
2001	Robert Casteels	Performing Arts	LASALLE College of the Arts
2002	Pierre De Meyts	Medicine	Hagedorn Research Institute
2003	Professor Eduardo Dargent Chamot	History of Nutrition	St. Mary's University St. Mary's University, Texas St. Mary's University is a Catholic and Marianist liberal arts institution located on northwest of downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States. St. Mary’s is a nationally recognized master’s level school ranked among the top colleges in the west for best value and academic reputation by U.S. News...
2004	Professor Christian Wellekens	Computer voice recognition	Institut Eurécom Institut Eurécom Eurecom is a graduate school in the domain of information and communication technology and a research center in communication systems. It was created in 1991 in Sophia-Antipolis by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , joined...
2005	Professor Hervé Bourlard	Computer sciences	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and is located in Lausanne, Switzerland.The school was founded by the Swiss Federal Government with the stated mission to:...
2006	Professor Dr. Bart Willem Kempenaers		Max Planck Institute
2007	Dirk van Braeckel Dirk van Braeckel Dirk van Braeckel , is a Belgian car designer, currently head of design at Bentley Motors.Born in Deinze, after leaving school, van Braeckel studied electrical engineering, before joining Ford as an apprentice car designer in Cologne, West Germany...	Automotive design Automotive design Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles. This most commonly refers to automobiles but also refers to motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches, and vans...	Bentley Motors	Design Bentley Continental GTC
2008	Professor Patrick De Deckker	Research/Lecturer Past climates, earth's history	Australian National University Australian National University The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...