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He was one of three Maltese representatives at the Convention on the Future of Europe presided by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, contributing to various aspects of the debate at the Convention ranging from proposed amendments to include a reference to Europe's Christian traditions to procedural proposals to streamline the EU's decision-making process.

He graduated B.A. in 1955.

He had emphasized politics within his writings, placing man as 'central' to all political action. He was also politically affiliated with the country's Nationalist Party, serving as advisor to former Prime Minister of Malta, Eddie Fenech Adami. He had been suffering from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and was being treated at Mater Dei hospital.

Biography:Peter Serracino Inglott

Short description: Maltese university professor and rector

Peter Serracino Inglott

Serracino Inglott speaking at Researchers' Night 2007, at Saint James Cavalier, Malta

Born26 April 1936
Died16 March 2012 (2012-03-17) (aged 75)
NationalityMaltese
EducationInstitut Catholique de Paris (BD cum laude 1958-1960) u fl-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Ph.D.

With regards to the opposing Labour Party, Fr Peter had this to say of former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff: "The great pity is that I have always had a great deal of sympathy with Mintoff's ideas. He was also honoured by the French, Italian, Portuguese and Maltese governments respectively with the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (1990), Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Ordine al Merito (1995), Gra-Cruz da Ordam (1995) and Companion of the Order of Merit (Malta) (1995).

Serracino Inglott was an advisor to the former Prime Minister of Malta, Eddie Fenech Adami (1987–1996, 1998–2004).

His study of language led to him writing 'The Creative Use of Noise' with composer Charles Camilleri.

peter serracino inglott biography for kids

He was a key figure at reconstructing the Maltese education system and held academia to his personal life prominently. For several years he was a columnist for The Sunday Times of Malta until he stopped writing for health reasons in 2011.

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Throughout his years as a scholar and public intellectual, Fr Peter was active as a priest.

He simultaneously sought to merge both rationalism and faith, and can be quoted saying: "The discovery of God is recognized within, especially within the Creation, and this is recognized from its study". 1960–1963) with a thesis on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Most notable was his office's order; described as messy and 'chaotic' yet somehow logical to and only to the Rector.[6]

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P. Cattorini), Milano (1990);

  • Compostella, Malta (1993) Libretto of an Opera on the European significance of the pilgrimage in medieval and contemporary times;
  • It-tieni mewt ta' Lazzru. Malta. 1994. 
  • The Maltese Cross, Malta (1995) – A European Opera on the mystery of Schiller's Die Malteser;
  • Pynchon, Wittgenstein and Malta (1995) with Petra Bianchi et al.;
  • The volume Interfaces, essays in honour of Peter Serracino-Inglott (1997) with contributions by:
    • Alain Blondy (Professor of History at the Sorbonne)
    • David E.

      Cooper (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham)

    • David Farley-Hills (Emeritus Professor at the University of Wales)
    • John Haldane (Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies at the University of St. Andrews)
    • Peter Jones (Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh)
    • Elisabeth Mann Borgese (Professor of Politics at Dalhousie University)
    • Federico Mayor (Director General of UNESCO)
    • Paul Streeten (Professor of Economics and chairman of the editorial board of the bi-monthly journal World Development)
    • contains a brief biography of Peter Serracino Inglott by his successor in the chair of philosophy at the University of Malta Joe Friggieri and a very useful annotated bibliography.

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      Peter Serracino Inglott died on 16 March 2012. His forgetfulness would sometimes result in comical situations which would cause confusion within his colleagues. Together with Salvino Busuttil, in 1974 he founded the European Documentation Centre in Valletta, later the Institute for European Studies.

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      In 1987 he was appointed chairman of the Mediterrean Institute at the University of Malta, and in 2001 he became chairman of the International Institute for Baroque Studies, also at the same university.

      He was also professor in the faculty of theology at the University.

      Serracino Inglott was professor of aesthetics at the Instituto Internazionale di Arte e Liturgia at Milan, visiting professor at Panthéon-Assas University (1989–1990), UNESCO Fellow at the Open University, UK (1978) and guest lecturer at the universities of Cincinnati, Milan (Cattolica), Venice (Ca Foscari), Palermo and the College of Europe at Bruges (1989, 1990).

      He was conferred honorary doctorates by Brunel University in the United Kingdom, Luther College, Iowa and the International Maritime Organization's International Maritime Law Institute.

      Peter Serracino Inglott was a great champion of Malta's 1967 proposal to declare ocean-space as Common Heritage of Mankind, in aid of which he developed both philosophical and political frameworks to underpin the management of the common heritage and the rights of future generations.

      During his advisory role within the Nationalist Party, his emphasis on welfare and charity was seen as strange within a fiscally conservative environment.

      Peter Serracino Inglott was a lifelong friend with Maltese architect and designer Richard England.