Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1914
Number:25 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Edvard Wavrinsky
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1848
Year, Death:1924
Profession:Member of the Swedish parliament
City:Stockholm
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Émile Arnaud
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1864
Year, Death:1921
Profession:Lawyer. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau (vice president).
City:Luzarches
Country:FRANCE (FR)
 
Motivation:Wavrinsky was nominated for his contribution to the peaceful dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian Union in 1905. He was chairman of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League. Arnaud promoted international law, arbitration and pacifism both in France and in the international peace movement. President of "Ligue de la Paix et de la Liberté" and editor-in-chief of the journal "Les Etats Unis d'Europe" from 1891. Vice-president of the French delegation to several international peace conferences initiated by the International Peace Bureau.
 
Nominator:
Name:Fredrik Bajer
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1837
Year, Death:1922
Profession:Honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1908.
City:Copenhagen
Country:DENMARK (DK)
 
Comments: Wavrinsky was also on the short list but no new evaluation was requested.