Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
The Nobel Peace Prize 1908
Nobel Co-recipient Fredrik Bajer
Name: Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Birth: 27 October 1844, Gothenburg, Sweden
Death: 20 February 1916, Stockholm, Sweden
Residence when prize awarded: Sweden
Award: Founder of Swedish Peace and Arbitration League, Formerly Member of Swedish Parliament, Writer
Field: Drama, Poetry, Prose
Parliamentarian, writer. Founder, Swedish Peace and Arbitration League. Inspiring orator.
Without peace there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. Under such conditions, laws are silent. Without peace there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. Harmony is the highest ideal of life.
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Although Arnoldson suffered from periods of illness throughout his life, he lived to be seventy-two, dying of a heart attack in Stockholm in 1916.