Bertha von Suttner
Bertha von Suttner
The Nobel Peace Prize 1905
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Name: Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner
Birth: 9 June 1843, Prague, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic
Death: 21 June 1914, Vienna, Austria
Residence at the time of the award: Austria
Role: Author of Lay Down Your Arms, Honorary President of Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne, Switzerland
Field: peace movement
Generalissimo, Peace Movement. Author, ‘Lay Down Your Arms‘. Permanent International Peace Bureau. Vigorously opposed militaristic traditions. Eternal truth: happiness created, developed in peace. Eternal right: individual’s right to live.
“Inform me, convince me, and then I will do something great for the movement”, Alfred Nobel said to Bertha von Suttner.”
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- Bertha von Suttner was suspected of having cancer. She passed away on 21 June 1914; two months prior to the eruption of World War I, a war regarding which she had warned and struggled to prevent.
- In accordance with Bertha von Suttner’s wishes, she was cremated at Gotha and her ashes left there in the columbarium. The war and its immediate aftermath put an end not only to the plans of the peace movement for the congress in Vienna but to its plans for a monument to Bertha von Suttner.
- Towards a Bertha von Suttner, peace museum in Vienna (1914 – 2014) by Peter van den Dungen.