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IPB Nobel Prize Winners

Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner (June 9, 1843-June 21, 1914), born Countess Kinsky in Prague, was the posthumous daughter of a field marshal.
In 1891, she was responsible for the creation of the Permanent International Peace Bureau in Berne.
In 1892 she promised to keep Alfred Nobel informed on the progress of the peace movement and, if possible, to convince him of its effectiveness. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.
In August of 1913, already affected by beginning illness, the Baroness spoke at the International Peace Congress at The Hague where she was greatly honored as the 'generalissimo' of the peace movement. In May of 1914 she was still able to take an interest in preparations being made for the twenty-first

Peace Congress, planned for Vienna in September. But her illness - suspected cancer - developed rapidly thereafter, and she died on June 21, 1914, two months before the erupting of the world war she had warned and struggled against.

Laureates :

1901 : Frédéric PASSY, France (IPB Council member)

1902 : Elie DUCOMMUN, Switzerland (first IPB Secretary-General)

1902 : Albert GOBAT, Switzerland (second IPB Secretary-General)

1905 : Bertha Von SUTTNER, Austria (IPB Vice-President)

1907 : Ernesto MONETA, Italy (IPB Council member)

1908 : Fredrik BAJER, DENMARK (first IPB President)

1910 : The IPB itself won the Nobel Peace Prize

1911 : Alfred FRIED, Austria, (IPB Council member)

1913 : Henri LAFONTAINE, Belgium (IPB President)

1927 : Ludwig QUIDDE, Germany (IPB Council member)

1959 : Philip NOEL-BAKER, UK (IPB Vice-President)

1962 : Linus PAULING, USA (IPB Vice-President)

1974 : Sean MacBRIDE, Ireland (IPB Chairman and President)

1982 : Alva MYRDAL, Sweden (IPB Vice-President)

 

Fredrik Bajer (April 21, 1837-January 22, 1922), was born in Vester Egede, near Naestved, Denmark. He became the first president of the Permanent Internatioanal Peace Bureau in 1891. He resigned from active office in 1907 to become its Honorary President; in 1908 he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in Copenhagen in 1922.

 


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