Bertha von Suttner

Bertha von Suttner
Bertha von Suttner
	Bertha von Suttner c. 1906
Born	9 June 1843; Prague, Austrian Empire
Died	Template:Death date and age; Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Occupation	novelist
Awards	Nobel Peace Prize, 1905

For the asteroid, see 12799 von Suttner.

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914) was an Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, and the first woman to be the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Biography

Suttner was born in Prague, Bohemia, the daughter of an impoverished^[1] Austrian Field Marshal, Franz-Josef Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, and wife Sophie von Körner, and governess to the wealthy Suttner family from 1873. She had an older brother, Arthur Franz Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau. She became engaged to engineer and novelist Arthur Gundaccar Freiherr von Suttner (who died on 10 December 1902), but his family opposed the match, and she answered an advertisement from Alfred Nobel in 1876 to become his secretary-housekeeper at his Paris residence. She only remained the week before returning to Vienna and secretly marrying Arthur on 12 June 1876.

Suttner became the leading figure in the peace movement with the publication of her novel, Die Waffen nieder! ("Lay Down Your Arms!") in 1889 and founded an Austrian pacifist organization in 1891. She gained international repute as editor of the international pacifist journal Die Waffen nieder!, named after her book, from 1892 to 1899. Her pacifism was influenced by the writings of Immanuel Kant, Henry Thomas Buckle, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin and Leo Tolstoy (Tolstoy praised Die Waffen nieder!). ^[2] Suttner was also the journalist, with one historian stating her work revealed her as "a most perceptive and adept political commentator".^[2] Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was the major influence in his decision to include the peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.

References

↑ Biography on Timeline of Nobel Prize Winners
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Bertha von Suttner by Irwin Adams. The World Encyclopedia of Peace.Edited by Ervin László, Linus Pauling and Jong Youl Yoo. Oxford : Pergamon, 1986. ISBN 0-08-032685-4, (vol. 3, pp. 201–4).

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[1] Biography on Timeline of Nobel Prize Winners

[weop-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Bertha von Suttner by Irwin Adams. The World Encyclopedia of Peace.Edited by Ervin László, Linus Pauling and Jong Youl Yoo. Oxford : Pergamon, 1986. ISBN 0-08-032685-4, (vol. 3, pp. 201–4).

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Persondata
Name	Suttner, Bertha Von
Alternative names
Short description	Austro-Hungarian writer
Date of birth	June 9, 1843
Place of birth	Prague, Austrian Empire
Date of death	June 21, 1914
Place of death	Vienna, Austria-Hungary