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Ivan T Berend

1930 – 2026 · Historian and economist; rector, Karl Marx University (now Corvinus), 1973-1979; president, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1985-1990; UCLA history professor, 1990-2015.

“He survived Dachau at 14 and spent a long life teaching how Central Europe's economies rose, failed, and changed.”

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Robert Alexy

1945 – 2026 · German jurist and legal philosopher; Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (from 1986); Senior Professor from 2019

“Made principles optimization commands and insisted law claim correctness.”

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Shirley Strum Kenny

1934 – 2026 · English scholar (Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama); university president; academic administrator

“Gave Stony Brook a heart and a beautiful campus.”

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Sir Anthony Kenny

1931 – 2026 · Philosopher; historian of philosophy; university administrator; former Roman Catholic priest (laicized)

“Devout agnostic who made the great philosophers lucid.”

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Konrad H. Jarausch

1941 – 2026 · German-American historian; Lurcy Professor Emeritus of European Civilization, UNC Chapel Hill; former co-director, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam

“Transatlantic historian who taught Germans and Americans to face a shattered past and rebuild civil society.”

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