| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1909 |
| Number: | 17 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Adolf Richter |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1839 |
| Year, Death: | 1914 |
| Profession: | Professor. Member of the Commision of the Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| City: | Pforzheim |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | The Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| Profession: | Central office through which peace activities could be coordinated |
| City: | Bern |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1910 |
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| Motivation: | 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.
The Peace Bureau organized peace conferences, and it collected and published peace literature. It was the heart of the European peace movement, and it co-ordinated the activities of the various national and non-governmental peace organizations. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1868 |
| Year, Death: | 1967 |
| Profession: | Professor of Philosophy. Member of the Commission of the Peace Bureau |
| University: | University of Bordeaux |
| City: | Bordeaux |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
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