Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1914
Number:4 - 3
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1851
Year, Death:1925
Profession:Member of the French senate.
City:Paris
Country:FRANCE (FR)
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1920
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Edoardo Giretti
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1864
Year, Death:1940
Profession:Member of the Italian parliament
Country:ITALY (IT)
 
Motivation:Bourgeois was chairman of the French delegation to the Peace Conferences at The Hague in 1899 and 1907. Member of the French parliament's peace group. Promoted international law and arbitration. Giretti was chairman of the peace association "Torre Pellice".
 
Nominator:
Name:Gaston Moch
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1859
Year, Death:1935
Profession:Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
City:Paris
Country:FRANCE (FR)
 
Comments: Moch also nominated Emile Arnaud, but Bourgeois and Giretti were his primary choices.