The Henry Brandon Memorial Lectureship on Contemporary European History was established in 1994 through the generosity of Mabel Hobart Wentworth Brandon. The Henry Brandon Lecture is delivered at programs of the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Oscar Henry Brandon was born on March 9, 1916, in Liberec, in former Czechoslovakia, and studied at Prague and Lausanne Universities. He began his career with the Sunday Times (London) in 1939, serving as a war correspondent in North Africa and Western Europe from 1943 to 1945; Paris correspondent to 1946; roving diplomatic correspondent to 1949; and Washington correspondent (later, chief American correspondent) from 1949 until he retired in 1983. Mr. Brandon concurrently served as associate editor of the Sunday Times during a significant period of his time with the Times and was the recipient of numerous journalistic awards. A naturalized British subject, Mr. Brandon was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1985 by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1970, Mr. Brandon married Mabel Hobart Wentworth, who directed corporate programming for the Ford Motor Company, served as social secretary in the Reagan White House, and is on staff at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. It is through her generosity that Salzburg Global Seminar now houses a collection of Henry Brandon’s books.
1994 The Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Palliser, Inaugural Lecturer
1995 R. Spencer Oliver, Esq.
1996 Claus-Dieter Ehlermann
1997 Dominique Moïsi
1998 John C. Kornblum
1999 Eva Nowotny
2000 Helen Wallace
2001 Lord David Hannay, GCMG
2002 Tony Judt
2003 Jay T. Harris
2004 Anne Sloman
2005 William Drozdiak
2006 Erika Mann
2007 Beate Winkler
2008 François Heisbourg
2009 John C. Kornblum, Ewald Nowotny, Jan Urban, and Franz Vranitzky
2010 Mark Ellis
2011 Claude Kieffer
2012 Wolfgang Schüssel
2013 Myles Bremner
2014 Gennady Burbulis
2018 Charlie Savage
2023 Timothy Snyder