Élie Ducommun
Élie Ducommun
The Nobel Peace Prize 1902
Nobel co-recipient Albert Gobat
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Name: Élie Ducommun
Birth: 19 February 1833, Geneva, Switzerland
Death: 7 December 1906, Bern, Switzerland
Residence at the time of the award: Switzerland
Role: Honorary Secretary, Permanent International Peace Bureau, Bern, Switzerland
Field: peace Movement
Permanent International Peace Bureau [1910 Nobel Peace Prize]. Nobelist Passy’s description: “exactitude, firmness.” History Demonstrates War’s Futility. Predicted, 1901: Despite modern weapons’ destructiveness, wars will ebb, flow. Alfred Nobel’s Contemporary.
Nobel Chairperson Løvland, “You Swiss, with your sense of life’s realities, have special gift for taking ideas from realm of dreams and turning them into realities.”
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In 1865 Élie Ducommun moved from Geneva to Bern where he founded the radical journal, Der Fortschritt [Progress], which was also published in French under the title Progrès.