biography
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Suttner, Bertha, Freifrau (Baroness) von
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née Kinsky
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pronunciation:
[sootner]
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| lived:
| (1843–1914)
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| biography:
| Writer and pacifist, born in Prague, Czech Republic. In 1876 she married a fellow novelist, Baron Arthur von Suttner (1850–1902), and founded in 1891 an Austrian Society of Friends of Peace (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Friedensfreunde;since 1964 the Suttner-Gesellschaft). Her novel Die Waffen nieder! (1889, trans Lay Down your Arms!) won the pacifist movement many new members. She also edited a pacifist journal, Die Waffen nieder! (1892–9), which was translated into many European languages. She influenced Alfred Nobel to establish the Nobel Prize for Peace, and was awarded the prize herself in 1905. She wrote her memoirs in 1909. |
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