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  Bertha von Suttner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner (June 9, 1843-June 21, 1914), born Countess Kinsky in Prague, was the posthumous daughter of a field marshal and the granddaughter, on her mother's side, of a cavalry captain.
Baroness von Suttner immediately added material on this to her second serious book, Das Maschinenzeitalter [The Machine Age] which, when published early in 1889, was much discussed and reviewed.
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.
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 Bertha von Suttner - Biography
, Bertha von Suttner went to work at once on a novel whose heroine suffers all the horrors of war; the wars involved were those of the author's own day on which she did careful research.
Most papers and manuscripts are in the Bertha von Suttner Manuscript Collection in the Peace Archives of the United Nations Library in Geneva, Switzerland.
Suttner, Bertha von, Krieg und Frieden: Ein Vortrag.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner), (June 9, 1843 in Prague - June 21, 1914 in Vienna), born as Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Suttner was the daughter of an impoverished Austrian field marshal and governess to the wealthy Suttner family from 1873.
She became engaged to engineer and novelist Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner, but her family opposed the match, and she answered an advertisement from Alfred Nobel in 1876 to become his secretary-housekeeper at his Paris residence.
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 Bertha von Suttner commemoration (Norway - the official site in the Czech Republic)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In commemoration of the centenary of the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Bertha von Suttner by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the year of the foundation of the modern Norwegian state in 1905, an international conference will be held in Prague on 12-13 November 2005.
by writing a book which should propagate its ideas», Bertha von Suttner went to work on a novel whose heroine suffers all the horrors of war; the wars involved were those of the author's own day on which she did careful research.
Bertha von Suttner was unable to be present at either ceremony because of fatigue incurred during a strenuous schedule of meetings and speaking engagements.
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 Bertha, baroness von Suttner --  Encyclopædia Britannica
She is credited with influencing Alfred Nobel in the establishment of the Nobel Prize for Peace, of which she was the recipient in 1905.
Suttner herself was awarded the prize in 1905.
Bertha Honoré was born on May 22, 1849, in Louisville, Ky. In 1871 she married Potter Palmer, a wealthy businessman and real estate promoter in Chicago.
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 Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner (1843-1914) Peace Activist
Born the Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau in Prague, then Austria (now the Czech Republic), the posthumous daughter of an Austrian army field marshal, Suttner spent the first half of her life accepting the military traditions which she would later try to subvert.
Bertha returned to Vienna to marry Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner over the objections of his family.
Although Suttner had inspired Noble to establish the Noble Peace Prize, ironically, she was not the first person to receive it even though she did finally receive it in 1905.
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 Suttner, Bertha, Freifrau (Baroness) von
The daughter of an impoverished Austrian field marshal, she was a governess to the wealthy Suttner family from 1873.
She became engaged to Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner (1850-1902), an engineer and novelist, seven years her junior.
It is believed that her increasing identification with the peace movement (in 1891 she founded an Austrian pacifist organization) and her letters on the subject to Nobel caused him to include a peace prize among the awards for which he provided in his will.
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 Bertha - Bertha Ryland - Notable Women Ancestors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau.
Bertha Everett Mahony was born in Rockport, MA, in 1882.
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 Bertha von Suttner commemoration (Norway - the official site in the Czech Republic)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In commemoration of the centenary of the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Bertha von Suttner by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the year of the foundation of the modern Norwegian state in 1905, an international conference will be held in Prague on November 12-13.
The international conference in Prague will follow up a similar conference held in Austria in May 2005, and is intended to project Bertha von Suttner's ideas into present-day reality.
Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner (June 9, 1843-June 21, 1914), born Countess Kinsky in Prague.
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 Bertha von Suttner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Austrian baroness and writer Bertha von Suttner give a public reading from her...
Nobel was a close friend of Bertha von Suttner, a leading pacifist of the time...
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 Additional Reading (from Bertha, baroness von Suttner) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Suttner's life and achievements are chronicled in Beatrix Kempf, Suffragette for Peace (1972; also published as Woman for Peace, 1973; originally published in German, 1964); and Brigitte Hamann, Bertha von Suttner (1996; originally published in German, 1986).
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 Bertha von Suttner --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
She was a leader in several early peace societies and is credited with influencing Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in the establishment of the Nobel prize for peace.
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The poet and prose writer Verner von Heidenstam led the literary reaction to the naturalist movement in Sweden, calling for a renaissance of the literature of fantasy, beauty, and national themes.
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 Jane Addams, the Peacemaker
Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.
In fact, her work inspired the creation of the Prize.
There are many women today who have followed Addams's lead.
www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/addams/peace_2   (141 words)

  
 Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner Winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Peace
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner Winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Peace
Maiden Name: Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
Bertha von Suttner - Biography (submitted by Davis)
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 Peacemakers
Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner – Biography from The Nobel Foundation
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 A Celebration of Women Writers: C Listings
Chinic und Tettau, Countess Kinsky von [aka Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner] (1843-1914) ; More Information
Cholmondely, Alice [aka Elizabeth von Arnim; Mary Annette Beauchamp; Elizabeth] (1866-1941)
Clay, Bertha M. [aka Charlotte Monica Brame; Charlotte Braeme] (1836-1884)
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