This chair was created in 1989 for a scientist from a member country of the European Economic Community, for one academic year. It has been held by :
- Harald Weinrich, Professor at the University of Munich : "Linguistic Memory of Europe" (1989-1990)
- Wolf Lepenies, Professor at the Wissenschaftskolleg of the Free University of Berlin : "Intellectuals and the politics of the mind in European history" (1991-1992)
- Umberto Eco, Professor at the University of Bologna : "The quest for a perfect language in the history of European culture" (1992-1993)
- Werner Hildenbrand, Professor at the University of Bonn : "The empirical content of economic theories" (1993-1994)
- Norbert Ohler, Professor at the University of Freiburg : "Pilgrims' contribution to the formation of Europe" (1994-1995)
- Klaus Rajewski, Professor, University of Cologne : "New genetic approaches in mice" (1995-1996)
- Pieter Westbroek, Professor at Leiden University : "Geophysics: outline of a new Earth science" (1996-1997)
- Abram de Swaan, Professor, University of Amsterdam : "Language and culture in transnational society" (1997-1998)
- Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Professor at the Free University of Berlin : "The image of collections in 18th-century Europe" (1998-1999)
- Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Gärtner, Professor at Düsseldorf Medical School : "Neural bases of consciousness: the contribution of brain imaging" (1999-2000)
- Michael Edwards, Professor, University of Warwick : "Poetics of English and French" (2000-2001)
- Claudio Magris, professor at the University of Trieste : "Nihilism and melancholy. Jacobsen and his Niels Lyhne" (2001-2002)
- Hans Belting, Professor at the University of Heidelberg : "The history of the gaze. Representation and vision in the West" (2002-2003)
- Theodor Berchem, Professor Emeritus, University of Würzburg : "The future of the university - the university of the future" (2003-2004)
- Sandro Stringari, Director of the Research and Development Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation at Trento : "Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity" (2004-2005)
- Maurice Bloch: "L'anthropologie cognitive à l'épreuve du terrain" (2005-2006)
- Guy Orban: "Vision, the brain's mission" (2006-2007)
- Manfred Kropp: "Koranic studies" (2007-2008)
- Alain Wijffels: " Miroir et mémoire de l'Europe : à la recherche d'une culture juridique partagée, du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine " (2016-2017)
- Victor Stoichita: " The Europe of images " (2017-2018)
- Lucrezia Reichlin: " The European Central Bank (EBC) and the euro crisis " (2018-2019)
