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Bertha von Suttner
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austrian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate.
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culture · Austrian novelist and pacifist (1843–1914) · writer · novelist · translator · journalist · pacifist · science fiction writer · editor · social activist · also Bertha von Suttner, Bertha Sophia Felicita Freifrau von Suttner, Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, B. Oulot, Jemand, Countess Kinsky
Born 9 June 1843 · Died 21 June 1914 · Q18456
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2026· 2 entries
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2025· 1 entry
The European Central Bank announced two themes for a future redesign of Euro banknotes: "European culture" and "Rivers and birds"
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1914· 1 entry
Died 1914-06-21.
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1911· 1 entry
Became a member of the advisory council of the Carnegie Peace Foundation
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1907· 1 entry
Von Suttner was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Conference, which mainly pertained to the law of war
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1905· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1905).
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Has also been commemorated on several coins and stamps:
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Became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate
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1904· 1 entry
Addressed the International Congress of Women in Berlin and for seven months travelled around the United States, attending a universal peace congress in Boston and meeting President Theodore Roosevelt
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1902· 1 entry
Suttner had to sell Harmannsdorf Castle and moved back to Vienna
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1897· 1 entry
Presented Emperor Franz Joseph I with a list of signatures urging the establishment of an International Court of Justice and took part in the First Hague Convention in 1899 with the help of Theodor Herzl, who paid fo
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1896· 1 entry
And it is believed that Von Suttner was a major influence on his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will
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1889· 1 entry
Suttner became a leading figure in the peace movement with the publication of her pacifist novel, Die Waffen nieder
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1885· 1 entry
The couple felt increasingly unsafe in Georgian society, which was becoming more hostile to Austrians due to Russian influence
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1884· 1 entry
Suttner's mother died, leaving the couple with further debts
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1877· 1 entry
On the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War, although Arthur worked as a reporter on the conflict for the Neue Freie Presse
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1876· 1 entry
With the encouragement of her employers, she answered a newspaper advertisement which led to her briefly becoming secretary and housekeeper to Alfred Nobel in Paris
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1873· 1 entry
Found employment as a tutor at the house of Karl Gundaccar Freiherr von Suttner (1819–1898) and his wife, Karola Knolz (b
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1867· 1 entry
And from Pauline Viardot in Baden-Baden in 1868, she never secured a professional engagement
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1866· 1 entry
Both Landgrave Fürstenberg (Bertha's guardian) and Elvira died, and Bertha (now at age 23, above the typical age of marriage) felt increasingly constrained by her mother's eccentricity and the family's poor financial cir
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1864· 1 entry
The family spent the summer at Bad Homburg, a fashionable gambling destination among the aristocracy of the era
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1855· 1 entry
Bertha's maternal aunt Charlotte (Lotte) Büschel, née von Körner (also a widow), and her daughter Elvira joined the household
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1843· 1 entry
Born 1843-06-09.
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