Theodore Hesburgh

Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC, ( born May 25, 1917 in Syracuse, New York ) is a Roman Catholic priest and university professor. He was 1952-1987 President of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

Hesburgh was from 1957 to 1972 a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission, whose chairman from 1969. Hesburgh was also a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States from the 1950s up to the 1990s. It was in 1964 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1965 with the Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria and in 1999 with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Honors and Awards

  • Honorary Member of the K.Ö.H.V. Alpine Country (Vienna) in the ACA (1961 )
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 1964)
  • Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy (1980 )
  • Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1984 )
  • Four Freedoms Award, in the category of religious freedom (1993 )
  • Golden Congressional Medal of Honor (1999)
  • NCAA Gerald R. Ford Award ( 2004)

Hesburgh were awarded 150 honorary doctorates.

The asteroid (1952 ) Hesburgh was named after him.

Works (selection)

  • God, Country, Notre Dame. The autobiography. University of Notre Dame Press, South Bend, Ind. 2000, ISBN 0-268-01038-2 (along with Jerry Reedy; Nachdr d ed New York 1990).
  • Travels with Ned and Ted. University of Notre Dame Press, South Bend, Ind. 2000, ISBN 0-385-51126-4.
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