Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1928 |
Number: | 13 - 1 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Tomás Garrigue Masaryk |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1850 |
Year, Death: | 1937 |
Profession: | President of Czechoslovakia (1918-1935). |
University: | Prague |
City: | Prague |
Country: | CZECH REPUBLIC (CZ) |
Motivation: | Masaryk promoted humanism, ethics, and pacifism. As a Czechoslovakian nationalist he fought to defend the Slav peoples against Austrian-Hungarian imperialism. He successfully acted as mediator between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in 1912. During World War I Masaryk advocated democratic rights and human liberation. He was the chief founder and first president of Czechoslovakia. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Ludwig Quidde |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1858 |
Year, Death: | 1941 |
Profession: | Historian. Member of Parliament. Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1927. |
City: | Munich |
Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
Comments: | Quidde nominated Addams as his primary choice. He did not want the prize to be divided. |
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