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  Bertha von Suttner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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, baroness von Suttner --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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.
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.
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau von Suttner (1843-1914)
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 AllRefer.com - Suttner, Bertha (GrAfin Kinsky), Freifrau von (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Suttner, Bertha (GrAfin Kinsky), Freifrau von, German Literature, Biographies
Suttner, Bertha (GrAfin Kinsky), Freifrau von[ber´tA, grAf´in kins´kE, frI´frou fun zoot´nur] Pronunciation Key, 1843–1914, Austrian novelist, known chiefly as an ardent pacifist.
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 Pantheist Association for Nature - Pantheist Panorama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) - German writer and poet who Lord Bryon called 'the monarch of European letters." Goethe identified himself with Spinoza's pantheistic view of reality and declared "he who rises not high enough to see God and nature as one knows neither."
Bertha Freifrau von Suttner (1843-1914) - An Austrian novelist and pacifist who became the first woman awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1905.
Suttner's reading of Darwin and Haeckel led her to adopt a Pantheistic creed.
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