Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1905 |
Number: | 16 - 4 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Baroness Bertha Sophie F von Suttner |
Gender: | F |
Year, Birth: | 1843 |
Year, Death: | 1914 |
Profession: | Author. Vice president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
City: | Vienna |
Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1905 | |
Motivation: | 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: |
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Name: | Jacques Novikow |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Sociologist. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
City: | Odessa (Odesa) |
Country: | UKRAINE (UA) |
Comments: | Odessa was part of Russia, then of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1991 the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic declared independence and the name was changed to Ukraine. Odessa is the admministrative center of southwestern Ukraine. |
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