1917
Presentation
Presentation
The International Committee of the Red Cross – 1917 The only Nobel Peace Prize awarded during the years of World War I was that for 1917 given to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The award ceremony took place on December 10, 1917, at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, with Mr. Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland,…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1917
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1917
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreKarl Gjellerup – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on June 2, 1857, in the Roholte vicarage at Praestö. My father was Pastor Carl Adolph Gjellerup, my mother, Anna Fibiger. After my father’s death in 1860, in Landet vicarage on Lolland (from which I still have a number of memories), I went in November of the same year to the home…
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Henrik Pontoppidan – Biographical
Biographical
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister. My mother, whose maiden name was Oxenbøl, was the daughter of a government official. They had sixteen children. One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of…
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