Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1934
Number:46 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name: Comité international des sciences historiques
Profession:International committee of historical sciences
 
Motivation:The International Committee of Historical Sciences advocated peace and international understanding. The Committee consisted of representatives from 42 countries, and it organized international conferences. It also established a commission occupied with securing objective tuition of national and international history.
 
Nominator:
Name:Aage Friis
Gender:M
Profession:Professor of History
University:University of Copenhagen
City:Copenhagen
Country:DENMARK (DK)
 
Comments: Friis nominated Comité international des sciences historiques on behalf of 16 other historians including H.T. Colenbrander, A. Dopsche, Fr. Meinecke, H. Pirenne, L. Stavenow and G.M. Trevelyan. None of the nominators were executive members of the Comité.