Caroline Walker Bynum Elected to the Orden Pour le Mérite

Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor Emerita in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been elected to the Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Orden Pour le Mérite was founded in 1740 by Frederick the Great for military service to Prussia, and in 1842 the civil class was created to recognize excellence in science, scholarship, and the arts. Bynum is one of two new members elected by the membership to the Order, which has a total of thirty-seven German and thirty-six foreign members.