Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
Year: | 1912 |
Number: | 8 - 4 |
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Nominee:
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Name: | Henri Marie La Fontaine |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1854 |
Year, Death: | 1943 |
Profession: | Professor of International Law . Member of parliament (Senate). Member of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
University: | Free University of Brussels |
City: | Brussels |
Country: | BELGIUM (BE) |
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1913 |
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Motivation: | La Fontaine was considered a true internationalist. He was president of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau and Secretary General for the Belgian Peace and Arbitration League. He also participated in the activities of the Inter-Parlimentary Union. Together with Paul Otlet he founded in 1907 the Union of International Associations. |
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Nominator:
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Name: | Alfred Hermann Fried |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1864 |
Year, Death: | 1921 |
Profession: | Journalist. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1911. |
City: | Vienna |
Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
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Comments: |
The nominator implied that the prize ought to be divided between La Fontaine and Kgl. Sächs. Institut f. Kultur und Universalgeschichte an der Univ. Leipzig. |
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