Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
Year: | 1913 |
Number: | 7 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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Name: | William Evans Darby |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1844 |
Year, Death: | 1922 |
Profession: | Congregational minister. Member of the Commission of the Peace Bureau |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Nominee 2:
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Name: | Adolf Richter |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1839 |
Year, Death: | 1914 |
Profession: | Professor. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau |
City: | Pforzheim |
Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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Motivation: | Darby was secretary of the English Peace Society. He wrote and published literature on peace, international law and arbitration, and he attended several peace congresses.
Richter was chairman of the German Peace Association. One of the central figures of the early German peace movement. He attended international peace conferences and presided over the peace conference in Hamburg in 1897. |
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Nominator:
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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) |
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Comments: |
Both Darby and Richter was on the short list, but no new evaluations were requested. Moch nominated the two candidates for the reserved prize from 1912 in case this was awarded. |
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