Gilbert Trausch

In 2005 Trausch campaigned for a Yes vote in the Luxembourgish referendum on the European Constitution.

In 1990 he became the director of the Centre de Recherches européennes Robert Schuman.

Gilbert Trausch played a prominent role in the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Luxembourgish independence in 1989, as the head of the commission organising the celebrations. At the official celebration on 18 April 1989, he was the only one to speak alongside Jacques Santer and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.

He was also a professor at the University of Liège. In 1982 he became the Luxembourgish representative at the European Commission's Liaison group of professors of contemporary history. He also taught at the College of Europe in Bruges. His speciality is modern and contemporary history of Luxembourg, and the functioning of the state, politics and society of Luxembourg.

From 1968 to 1995 he was a professor at the Centre universitaire du Luxembourg, and was its director from 1984 to 1990. From 1972 to 1984 he was also the director of the National Library.

In 1956, he then taught French and History at the Lycée de garçons, the same secondary school as Margue, and later received the title of professeur in 1959. In 1963, he became a Membre correspondant and in 1964 a Membre effectif of the Historical Section of the Grand Ducal Institute.

Trausch came from a Catholic middle-class family background. His father was an engineer in the steel firm Hadir. Gilbert Trausch attended the Lycée de garçons Luxembourg, where he was influenced by Tony Bourg, and finished school in 1950. Following this, he studied history at the Sorbonne and at Exeter.

Gilbert Trausch (20 September 1931 – 3 June 2018) was a Luxembourgish historian. He and other colleagues of the post-World War II generation of Luxembourg historians, such as Paul Margue, brought a new concern for Luxembourg's international relations to their study of its history.