The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Peace, 1901-1956

Year:	1904
Number:	2-3
Nominee 1:
Name:	Fredrik Bajer
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1837
Year, death:	1922
Profession/Category:	Veteran peace worker. Member of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Commission of the Peace Bureau.
City:	Copenhagen
Country:	DK (DENMARK)
Received prize:	Pea 1908 »
Nominee 2:
Name:	Baroness Bertha Sophie F von Suttner
Gender:	F
Year, birth:	1843
Year, death:	1914
Profession/Category:	Author. Vice president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
City:	Vienna
Country:	AT (AUSTRIA)
Received prize:	Pea 1905 »
Motivation:	Bajer promoted Nordic neutrality and brotherhood. He was one of the initiators and founders of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, and he was the first president of the Peace Bureau. Bajer was also member of the council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He organized peace work both in Denmark and internationally, both popular peace movements and parliamentary peace work. Bajer was Scandinavia's most prominent peace advocate. Suttner was the author of the novel "Die Waffen nieder" (Lay Down Your Arms), the most important antiwar novel of the period. She was the founder and president of the Austrian Peace Society (1891), and she contributed to the foundation of the Permanent International Peace Bureau (1891). Suttner was nominated for her contribution to the international peace movement.
Nominator:
Name:	Charles Auguste Benjamin H Houzeau de Lehaie
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Member of the Belgian parliament
City:	Brussels
Country:	BE (BELGIUM)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name:	Halvdan Koht
Gender:	M
Comment:	Lehaie nominated both Suttner and Bajer. In case the prize was to be awarded an institution, Lehaie suggested the Permanent Intenational Peace Bureau or the Inter-Parliamentary Union.