She was awarded the prize by the Westpreussische Gesellschaft (West Prussian Society), as part of a conference on Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670), the Moravian theologian and senior of the Bohemian Brethren community whose ecumenical movement had a great impact on Polish Prussia.
Comenius’s pedagogical writings also exerted significant influence on the intellectual culture of Scottish universities, including Aberdeen, mainly through his close contacts to the Scottish reformed theologian, John Dury (1596-1680).
The conference and prize giving was attended by a large audience, half German, half Polish, some of whom are descendants of the German minority population that did not leave Poland after 1945.
Among those who have received this prize in the past is also Wernher von Braun, the pioneer of rocket and aerospace technology, presented with the award due to his family origins in West Prussia.