Bertha von Suttner
Bertha von Suttner
The Nobel Peace Prize 1905
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
“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.