Paolo Prodi

Paolo Prodi (3 October 1932 – 16 December 2016) was an Italian historian and politician.

Early life and education Born on 3 October 1932 in Scandiano, in the province of Reggio Emilia, he was one of the nine children of the engineer Mario Prodi and the elementary school teacher Enrichetta Franzoni. He was the brother of the politician, manager, and economist Romano Prodi, the professor and politician Vittorio Prodi, the physicist , the oncologist Giorgio Prodi, and the mathematician Giovanni Prodi.

Career Prodi taught modern history at the University of Trento, of which he was the rector from 1972 to 1978 and dean of the Faculty of Letters from 1985 to 1988, the Sapienza University of Rome, and the University of Bologna, of which he was the dean of the Faculty of Teaching from 1969 to 1972. He was also president of the Giunta Storica Nazionale (formerly Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici) and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2000, he won the saggistica (non-fiction) category of the . In 2007, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize.

For more times, Paolo Prodi was invited by and gave some lectures at the Grand Orient of Italy.

Personal life and death Prodi was married to Dede since 1969. They had four children: Giovanni, Gabriele, Marta, and Mario, all of whom grew up in Bologna. The building of the Department of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Trento was named after him. The family donated his archive to the university.

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Honours Italy 50px Grand Official of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, 1975.

Foreign 50px Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1992.