Manfred Osten (born 19 January 1938 in Ludwigslust) is a German poet, author, lawyer, former diplomat and cultural historian.
He was born in Ludwigslust in the region of Mecklenburg, which became part of the German Democratic Republic after World War II. He escaped to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952. In 1969, he earned a doctorate upon the completion of a thesis concerning the concept of natural law in the early writings of Schelling. [1] He then joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany. His career as a diplomat included postings in France, Cameroon, Chad, Australia, Japan, and Hungary. From 1995 to 2004 he was the Secretary-General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. [2] [3]
He is an honorary Doctor of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Pécs, the University of Bucharest, and the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. [4] In 1993 he received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government. He is in addition a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. [5] [6] [7] In 2008 he was admitted to the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. [8] [9]
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