Nobel Prize

Ludwig Quidde’s Nobel Prize diploma.

Ludwig Quidde was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Ferdinand Edouard Buisson, for his efforts for Franco-German reconciliation. Ludwig Quidde Full name: Ludwig QuiddeBorn: 23 March 1858, Bremen, GermanyDied: 4 March 1941, Geneva, SwitzerlandDate awarded: 10 December 1927 Against German war policy Ludwig Quidde received the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong efforts to…

Ferdinand Buisson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Ludwig Quidde, for his efforts for Franco-German reconciliation. Ferdinand Buisson Full name: Ferdinand Édouard BuissonBorn: 20 December 1841, Paris, FranceDied: 16 February 1932, Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, FranceDate awarded: 10 December 1927 For human rights and German-French reconciliation Ferdinand Buisson was a professor in the theory of education…

Henri La Fontaine and Ludwig Quidde at the opening session of the XXIIIrd Universal Peace Congress in the Reichstag Room, Berlin, 1924. World Peace Congress in Munich 1907: Bertha von Suttner (seated row, second from left), Ludwig Quidde (next to the right), Frédéric Passy (next to the right), Henri La Fontaine (to her right) and…

Julius Wagner-Jauregg’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1927 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten, meine Damen und Herren! Gestatten Sie, dass ich unter dem Eindrucke des ergreifenden Erlebens dieses einzigartigen Festtages mit einigen Worten mein volles Herz entlaste. Lassen sie mich vor Allem dankbar jenes hochherzigen Mannes gedenken, der die irdischen Güter, welche…

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1927 The Treatment of Dementia Paralytica by Malaria Inoculation Two paths could lead to a cure for progressive paralysis: the rational and the empirical. The rational path appeared to be practical, as since Esmarch and Jessen, in 1858, attention had been drawn to a connection between progressive paralysis and syphilis. If…

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Nobel Essay, May 31, 1928 Changes in Concepts of War and Peace Pdf 34kB

Essay based on Nobel Lecture of December 12, 1927 Security and Disarmament The two problems treated in this essay are the most delicate and current of present-day politics. They have also for a long time been fundamental problems of pacifism. It is not by chance that they are treated together here; on the contrary it…

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