Élie Ducommun
Élie Ducommun
The Nobel Peace Prize 1902
Nobel co-recipient Albert Gobat
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
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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Élie Ducommun (February 19, 1833-December 7, 1906), Swiss journalist, eloquent lecturer, business executive, steadfast advocate of peace, was born in Geneva, the son of a clock maker whose original home was in Neuchâtel. Early in his boyhood he gave evidence of his capacity to make the most of his remarkable talent and intelligence by intense application.