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Bertha von Suttner

Bertha von Suttner. By: Emilie Santana. Bio of von Suttner. Bertha F elicie Sophia von Suttner Born on June 9, 1843. D ied June 21, 1914. In 1891, she helped form a Venetian peace group, initiated the Austrian Peace Society of which she was for a long time the president.

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Bertha von Suttner

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  1. Bertha von Suttner By: Emilie Santana

  2. Bio of von Suttner • Bertha Felicie Sophia von Suttner • Born on June 9, 1843. Died June 21, 1914. • In 1891, she helped form a Venetian peace group, initiated the Austrian Peace Society of which she was for a long time the president. • In 1892, with A.H. Fried, she initiated the peace journal Die WaffenNieder, remaining its editor until the end of 1899. • By1905, when she received the Nobel Peace Prize-at a fortuitous time financially- she was widely thought of as sharing the leadership of the peace movement with the venerable Passy.

  3. Facts on Bertha • Bertha von Suttner, along with her husband, worked hard to gain support for the Czar’s Manifesto and the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, arranging public meetings, forming committees, lecturing. • Her last major effort, made in 1912 when she was almost seventy, was a second lecture tour in the United States, the first having followed her attending the international Peace Congress of 1904 in Boston. • In August of 1913, already affected by beginning illness, the Baroness spoke at the International Peace Congress at The Hague where she was greatly honored as the generalissimo of the peace movement.

  4. Time periods of Bertha The Baroness spoke at the International Peace congress at the Hague. von Suttner last major effort was a second lecture tour in united States. She was still able to take interest in preparation until the day she died. von Suttner received the Nobel Peace Prize. The death of Bertha’s husband

  5. Bertha von Suttner Peace Movement She helped form a Venetian peace group, initiated the Austrian Peace Society of which she was for a long time president, attended her first international peace congress, and started the fund needed to establish the Bern Peace Bureau. With A.h. Fries, she initiated the peace journal Die WafferNieder, remaining its editor until the end of 1899 when it was replaced by the FriedenSwarteto which she regularly contributed comments on current events(RandglossenzurZeitgeshichte) until she died. Bertha von Suttner, along with her husband , worked hard to gain suport for the Czar’s Manifesto and the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, arranging public meetings, forming committees, lecturing. Although grief-stricken after her husband’s death in 1902, she determined to carry on the work which he had asked her to continue. By 1905, she received the Nobel Peace Prize- at a fortuitous time financially-she was widely thought of as sharing the leadership of the peace Movement with the venerable Passy. Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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