Christian Lous Lange was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Karl Hjalmar Branting, for his lifelong contributions to the cause of peace and organised internationalism. Christian Lange Full name: Christian Lous LangeBorn: 17 September 1869, Stavanger, NorwayDied: 11 December 1938, Oslo, NorwayDate awarded: 10 December 1921 Advocate of internationalism In 1921 Christian Lange of…

Karl Hjalmar Branting was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Christian Lous Lange, for his lifelong contributions to the cause of peace and organised internationalism. Hjalmar Branting Full name: Karl Hjalmar BrantingBorn: 23 November 1860, Stockholm, SwedenDied: 24 February 1925, Stockholm, SwedenDate awarded: 10 December 1921 Social democrat and internationalist Hjalmar Branting is considered…

Swedish social democrats (and father and son) Georg and Hjalmar Branting working on a translation of a book in 1916.

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School…

Norwegian Nobelpris-foredrag holdt i Det Norske Nobelinstitutt i Kristiania, den 13 desember 1921 Internationalisme I Ifölge Nobelstiftelsens grunn-regler plikter hver pris-tager å holde et offentlig foredrag over det pris-belönnede arbeide. Det har forekommet mig naturlig, når jeg idag skal opfylle denne forpliktelse, å pröve på å gi en utredning av det teoretiske grunnlag for arbeidet…

Swedish Nobel-föredrag hållet i Kristiania den 19 juni 1922 Nobelföredrag I grundbestämmelserna för det Nobelska testamentet angives i fråga om fredspriset, att, det bör tillfalla män eller kvinnor, som sökt verka »för folkens förbrödring, för avskaffande eller minskning av de stående härarna och för åstadkommande av fredskongresser». “Folkens förbrödring” är här satt främst. Det anger…

English Nobel Lecture, June 19, 1922 (Translation) Fraternity among Nations In the fundamental clauses of the Nobel testament concerning the Peace Prize, it is stated that it should be awarded to the men or women who have sought to work for “fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the…

English Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1921 (Translation) Internationalism I In accordance with the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, every prizewinner is supposed to deliver a public lecture on the work which earned him the prize. It has seemed natural for me, when fulfilling this obligation today, to try to give an account of the theoretical…