Gilbert Trausch
Gilbert Trausch ( born September 20, 1931 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourgian historian.
Trausch visited the boys' secondary school on the Limpertsberg and studied history at the University of Paris and the University of Exeter. He was then a teacher at the school for urban history and French, and in 1963 a corresponding member of the Historical Section of the Institut Grand- Ducal.
From 1968 to 1995 he held a professorship at the Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg. From 1972 to 1984 he was the head of the National Library.
He was then a professor at the University of Liège and the College of Europe. He was also appointed government adviser since 1990 the first director of the Centre d' études et de recherches européennes Robert Schuman ( CERE ) and was.
The historian Trausch applicable in Luxembourg as a political thinker, which replaced the outdated myth of blood and soil by a new official history of the state, which was, however, in political discourse is less than historical science because understood as a new patriotic narrative for the purpose of historical legitimacy of a young nation.
Denis Scuto sees the merit of Trausch that he had designed a history of socio-structural transformations in Luxembourg following the principles of the French historian Marc Bloch, but produce not the life story of individual people have lost sight of.