Swiss Professor, patriot and a founder of the MRA/IofC international centre at Caux
Professor Théophil Spoerri was professor of Italian and French literature at the University of Zurich for more than thirty years. He served as Rector of the University from 1948 until 1950. His work on Dante won him the Gold Medal of the city of Florence and the award of ‘Commendatore’ of the Italian Order of Merit, He was also one of the pioneers in Switzerland of what in the years before the Second World War was called the Oxford Group, and then Moral Re-Armament. He died in December 1974 during a winter conference in the Caux conference centre.
His papers are archived at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic, Zürich, archives: https://onlinearchives.ethz.ch/md/8c917585909242119ee742a02087abf5
