 The name of the prize honors the memory of the Austrian-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator Martin Buber (1878–1965) and the German-Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929).In its inaugural year, the prize was granted to both the historian Friedrich Heer ("Gottes erste Liebe"; "God's First Love") and the Protestant theologian Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt ("Die Entdeckung des Judentums für die christliche Theologie