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Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,060

Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant

Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, baron de Constant de Rebecque
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
22 November 1852 โ€“ 15 May 1924 (71 years old)

Paul-Henri d'Estournelles de Constant was a French diplomat, senator, and advocate for international arbitration who co-represented France at the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences. He was instrumental in establishing the Permanent Court of Arbitration and founded the Association for International Conciliation, receiving the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize.

Paris, France
Alfred Fried
Humanitarian & Peace
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Alfred Fried

Alfred Hermann Fried
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
1864 โ€“ 1921 (56 years old)

Austrian pacifist author and publisher who co-founded the German Peace Society alongside Bertha von Suttner, edited 'Die Friedens-Warte', and was awarded the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific theory of international organizational pacifism.

Vienna, Austria
Alfred Hermann Fried
Humanitarian & Peace
5
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Alfred Hermann Fried

Alfred Hermann Fried
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
11 November 1864 โ€“ 5 May 1921 (56 years old)

Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, journalist, and publisher who co-founded the German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft) in 1892 alongside Bertha von Suttner. As editor of 'Die Waffen nieder!' and 'Die Friedens-Warte', he pioneered 'scientific pacifism', advocating international organization as an economic and structural necessity, receiving the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize.

Vienna, Austria
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,090

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
20 September 1833 โ€“ 10 February 1918 (84 years old)

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, Garibaldian freedom fighter, and peace leader who founded the International Peace Society in Lombardy. As the influential editor of Milan's leading newspaper, Il Secolo, Moneta advocated for Franco-Italian reconciliation and international arbitration, becoming Italy's only Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1907.

Milan, Italy
Louis Renault
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,020

Louis Renault

Louis Renault
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
21 May 1843 โ€“ 8 February 1918 (74 years old)

Louis Renault was an eminent French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Paris. Serving as legal counsel to the French Foreign Ministry and principal rapporteur at the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences, he drafted pivotal treaties on naval warfare and prisoners of war, sharing the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta.

Paris, France
Dr. Elsie Maud Inglis
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,150

Dr. Elsie Maud Inglis

Elsie Maud Inglis
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
16 August 1864 โ€“ 26 November 1917 (53 years old)

Dr. Elsie Inglis was an innovative Scottish physician, surgeon, and suffragist who founded the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service during World War I. Rebuffed by the British War Office who told her to 'go home and sit still', she established fourteen frontline female-staffed hospitals across France, Serbia, and Russia, earning Serbia's highest military honor.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edith Louisa Cavell
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,420

Edith Louisa Cavell

Edith Louisa Cavell
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
4 December 1865 โ€“ 12 October 1915 (49 years old)

Edith Cavell was a British nurse and the pioneer of modern secular nursing in Belgium who treated wounded soldiers from both Allied and German forces without discrimination during World War I. She helped more than two hundred Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands, for which she was court-martialed and executed by a German firing squad, becoming a global symbol of moral courage.

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Charles Albert Gobat
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,040

Charles Albert Gobat

Charles Albert Gobat
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
21 May 1843 โ€“ 16 March 1914 (70 years old)

Charles Albert Gobat was a Swiss lawyer, statesman, and educator who served as administrator of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and later directed the International Peace Bureau. Jointly awarded the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize with ร‰lie Ducommun, Gobat passed away while addressing a peace conference in Bern on the eve of World War I.

Bern, Switzerland
Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,030

Tobias Michael Carel Asser

Tobias Michael Carel Asser
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
28 April 1838 โ€“ 29 July 1913 (75 years old)

Tobias Asser was an eminent Dutch jurist who pioneered the international codification of private international law. He initiated and presided over the Hague Conferences on Private International Law (1893โ€“1904), co-founded the Institut de Droit International, and helped create the Hague Academy of International Law, receiving the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Hague, Netherlands
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