Willibald-Pirckheimer-Medaille
The Willibald - Pirckheimer Medal was awarded a prize for services to culture and literature, was founded in 1955 by the Nuremberg bookseller, publisher and author Charles Borromeo Glock ( 1905-1985 ).
The medal is named after the German humanist Willibald Pirckheimer to the study of which is Glock has made deserves as a writer and editor. The medal was awarded mostly in the two- year cycle, by Willibald - Pirckheimer - trustees, which is next to the founder and former winners also other people of cultural life as Leo Weismantel, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Erich Przywara and Reinhold Schneider belonged. The Board of Trustees met since 1958 in the acquired and renovated by Glock Yellow Castle in Herold Mountain, in its ballroom held the awards ceremonies.