Austria-Hungary
Bertha von Suttner
1843–1914 Pacifist and novelist; Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1905
Born Countess Kinsky in Prague on 9 June 1843, Bertha von Suttner worked as a tutor in Vienna and, in 1876, briefly as Alfred Nobel's secretary in Paris, before marrying Baron Arthur von Suttner and spending nine years in the Caucasus. Her novel Die Waffen nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms), published in 1889, made her a leader of the peace movement and went through 37 editions. She initiated the Austrian Peace Society, edited a peace journal named after the book from 1892 to 1899, and is believed to have influenced Nobel's decision to establish a peace prize. In 1905 she became its first woman laureate. She died in Vienna on 21 June 1914, a week before the heir to the Austrian throne was killed.
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- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttner
- www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1905/suttner/biographical
- www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1905/suttner/facts
- www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/suttner-bertha-von-1843-1914
- depts.washington.edu/vienna/literature/suttner/suttner_bio.htm
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