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- Charles Habib Malik was a Lebanese philosopher and diplomat. Born in Bterram, Lebanon, Malik was the son of Dr. Habib Malik and Zarifa Karam. He was educated at the American Mission School for Boys, now Tripoli Evangelical School for Girls and Boys in Tripoli and the American University of Beirut, where he graduated with a degree in mathematics and physics. He moved on to Cairo in 1929, where he developed an interest in philosophy, which he proceeded to study at Harvard and in Freiburg, Germany (under Martin Heidegger in 1932. His stay in Germany, however, was short-lived. He found the policies of the Nazis unfavorable, and left soon after they came to power in 1933. In 1937, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University. He taught there as well as at other universities in the United States. After returning to Lebanon, Malik founded the Philosophy department at the American University, as well as a cultural studies program . He remained in this capacity until 1945 when he was appointed to be the Lebanese ambassador to the United States and the United Nations. Malik represented Lebanon at the San Francisco conference at which the United Nations was founded. He served as a rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights in 1947 and 1948, when he became President of the Economic and Social Council. The same year, he helped to draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Chair and President of the Human Rights Commission, U.S. Delegate to the U.N. General Assembly, Eleanor Roosevelt. He succeeded Mrs. Roosevelt as the Human Rights Commission's Chair. He remained as ambassador to the US and UN until 1955. He was an outspoken participant in debates in the United Nations General Assembly and often criticized the Soviet Union. After a three-year absence, he returned in 1958 to preside over the thirteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Meanwhile, Malik had been appointed to the Lebanese Cabinet. He was Minister of National Education and Fine Arts in 1956 and 1957, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 to 1958. While a Minister, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1957, and served there for three years. Malik returned to his academic career in 1960. He travelled extensively, lectured on human rights and other subjects, and held professorships at a number of American universities including Harvard, the American University in Washington, DC, Dartmouth College, University of Notre Dame . In 1981, he was also a Pascal Lecturer at the University of Waterloo in Canada. His last official post was with The Catholic University of America, where he served as a Jacques Maritain Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy from 1981 to 1983. Meanwhile, he had also returned to his old chair in Philosophy at the American University of Beirut . Following the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, which raged from 1975 to 1990, Malik helped to found the Front for Freedom and Man in Lebanon to defend the Christian cause. It was later renamed the Lebanese Front. A Greek Orthodox Christian, he was the only non-Maronite among the Front's top leaders, who included Phalangist Party founder Pierre Gemayel and former President and National Liberal Party leader Camille Chamoun. Malik was widely regarded as the brains of the Front, in which the other politicians were the brawn. Malik was also noted as a theologian who successfully reached across confessional lines, appealing to his fellow Eastern Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, and Evangelicals alike. The author of numerous commentaries on the Bible and on the writings of the early Church Fathers, Malik was one of the few Orthodox theologians of his time to be widely known in Evangelical circles, and the evangelical leader Bill Bright spoke well of him and quoted him. Partly owing to Malik's ecumenical appeal, as well as to his academic credentials, he served as President of the World Council on Christian Education from 1967 to 1971, and as Vice-President of the United Bible Societies from 1966 to 1972. Malik died of complications due to kidney failure, secondary to atheroembolic disease sustained after a cardiac catheterization, performed at the Mayo Clinic two years earlier, in Beirut on 28 December 1987. His son, Habib Malik, is a prominent academic and human rights activist. He was also survived by his brother, the late Father Ramzi Habib Malik, a prominent Catholic priest who worked tirelessly for the cause of Christian reconciliation with the Jewish people as well as for the belief that the Jewish People are the elder brothers of the Christians.
- Dr. Charles Habib Malik war der Präsident der dreizehnten UN-Generalversammlung im Jahre 1958. Malik besuchte die American Mission School for Boys in Tripoli/Libanon, absolvierte anschließend die American University von Beirut/Libanon. Diese beendete er 1927 mit einem Bachelor in Mathematik und Physik. Von 1927 bis 1929 unterrichtete er dort Mathematik und Physik. Im darauffolgenden Jahr ging er zum Verlagshaus al-Hilal Kairo, außerdem arbeitete er von 1930 bis 1932 für die Abteilung für Bilharziose der Rockefeller-Stiftung, an einer Studie über die zerstörerischen Auswirkungen dieser Krankheit, welche von Schnecken auf den Menschen übertragen wird. 1932 studierte Malik in Freiburg im Breisgau, wo er eine Promotion bei Martin Heidegger begann, die er aber Anfang 1933 unter dem Eindruck der Machtergreifung Hitlers abbrach und anschließend Deutschland in Richtung Vereinigte Staaten verließ, wo er seine Studien an der Harvard University 1934 mit einem Doktor in Philosophie abschloss. Zusammen mit Eleanor Roosevelt, mit der er persönlich befreundet war, war Malik einer der prägenden Persönlichkeiten der Konferenz von San Francisco, und Autor wesentlicher Teile der UN-Charta, sowie der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte, deren Ko-Autor und Berichterstatter vor der UN-Menschenrechtskommission er zusammen mit Mrs. Roosevelt war. Von 1945 bis 1953 war Dr. Malik außerordentlicher Gesandter und Generalbevollmächtigter Minister für den Libanon in den Vereinigten Staaten. Dieselbe Funktion übte er in der Zeit von 1946 bis 1953 in Kuba aus. Von 1953 bis 1955 war er Botschafter in den USA. Ab 18. November 1956 war er im Libanon Außen- und Unterrichtsminister. Dr. Malik war Vertreter des Libanons im UN-Wirtschafts- und Sozialrat, von dessen zweiter bis zur achten Sitzungsperiode, und in der siebten und achten Sitzungsperiode war er auch dessen Präsident. Er vertrat sein Land auch in der Kommission für Menschenrechte und war von 1951 bis 1952 deren Vorsitzender. Dr. Malik sprach fließend Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch sowie Arabisch, und war Mitglied der American Association for the Advancement of Science und der Amerikanischen Gesellschaft für internationales Recht. Er wurde oft auch als "arabischer Philosoph" bezeichnet, und schrieb zahlreiche Artikel zu wissenschaftlichen, sozialen und philosophischen Themen, sowohl in US-amerikanischen als auch arabischen Zeitschriften. In seinen letzten Lebensjahren wurde Malik noch Zeuge des libanesischen Bürgerkrieges. Als einziger griechisch-orthodoxer Politiker war er zu Beginn des Krieges Mitbegründer der Libanesischen Front, eines Bündnisses bürgerlicher und konservativer Kräfte gegen die linksgerichtete und pro-palästinensische Libanesische Nationalbewegung von Kamal Jumblatt. Im April 1982 war Charles Malik noch einmal in Deutschland zu Besuch, wo er ein halbes Jahrhundert zuvor bei Heidegger studiert hatte, um in Bonn an der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik einen Vortrag in deutscher Sprache zu halten.
- Charles Habib Malik était un diplomate, homme politique et universitaire libanais. Il a occupé plusieurs fonctions au sein de l'Organisation des Nations unies et a joué un rôle important au sein de la politique libanaise. Il est un des rédacteurs de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme.
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