Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1936 |
Number: | 40 - 1 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Comité international des sciences historiques |
Profession: | International committee of historical sciences |
Motivation: | The International Committee of Historical Sciences advocated peace and international understanding. The Committee consisted of representatives from 42 countries, and it organized international conferences. It also established a commission occupied with securing objective tuition of national and international history. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Aage Friis |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Professor of History |
University: | University of Copenhagen |
City: | Copenhagen |
Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
Comments: | Friis nominated Comité international des sciences historiques on behalf of 16 other historians from different countries (including H.T. Colenbrander, A. Dopsche, Fr. Meinecke, H. Pirenne, L. Stavenow and G.M. Trevelyan). None of the nominators were executive members of the committee. |
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