The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Literature, 1901-1950

Year:	1901
Number:	5-0
Nominee:
Name:	Alexander Baumgartner, S.J.
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1841
Year, death:	1910
Profession:	Historian of literature
Country:	CH (SWITZERLAND)
Motivation:	"Geschichte der Weltliteratur" ('The Story of the World’s Literature'), 4 volumes. 1897-1900.
Nominator:
Name:	Knud Krogh-Tonning
Gender:	M
Profession:	Theologian
Affiliation:	Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (see comment)
City:	Kristiania (now Oslo)
Country:	NO (NORWAY)
Comment:	Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab.