Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1931 |
Number: | 17 - 1 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Gerrit Jan Heering |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1879 |
Year, Death: | 1955 |
Profession: | Professor of Theology |
University: | Leiden University |
City: | Leiden |
Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
Motivation: | Heering had written a book called "De Zondeval van het Christendom" (1928), in which he advocated peace, pacifism and anti-militarism while critcizing the German State Church. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | J.B. Th Hugenholtz |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau |
Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
Comments: | Vereeining Volksweerbarheid (a Dutch defence association) protested against Heering's candidacy, claiming that his book was anti-patriotic. |
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