Alfred Hermann Fried
Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
About Alfred Hermann Fried
Lived 1864 – 1921 (aged 56). Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian opinion journalist, esperantist, writer, pacifist, journalist and jurist.
Alfred Hermann Fried (; 11 November 1864 – 4 May 1921) was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Fried was also a supporter of Esperanto. He is the author of an Esperanto textbook and an Esperanto–German and German–Esperanto dictionary, first published in 1903 and republished in 1905.
In 1911 he received the Nobel Peace Prize together with Tobias Asser.
During World War I, Fried moved to neutral Switzerland, and continued to advocate international peace. He died in his hometown, Vienna, in 1921. His ashes are buried at Feuerhalle Simmering.
Work Das Abrüstungs-Problem: Eine Untersuchung. Berlin, Gutman, 1904. Abschied von Wien The German Emperor and the Peace of the World, with a Preface by Norman Angell. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Die Grundlagen des revolutionären Pacifismus. Tübingen, Mohr, 1908. Translated into French by Jean Lagorgette as Les Bases du pacifisme: Le Pacifisme réformiste et le pacifisme «révolutionnaire». Paris, Pedone, 1909. Handbuch der Friedensbewegung. (Handbook of the Peace Movement) Wien, Oesterreichische Friedensgesellschaft, 1905. 2nd ed., Leipzig, Verlag der «Friedens-Warte», 1911. Die Grundlagen des ursächlichen pazifismus. Zürich, Art. Institut Orell Füssli, 1916. «Intellectual Starvation in Germany and Austria», in Nation, 110 (March 20, 1920) 367–368. International Cooperation. Newcastle upon Tyne, Richardson . Das internationale Leben der Gegenwart. Leipzig, Teubner, 1908. «The League of Nations: An Ethical Institution», in Living Age, 306 (August 21, 1920) 440–443. Mein Kriegstagebuch. (My War Journal) 4 Bde. Zürich, Rascher, 1918–1920. Pan-Amerika. Zürich, Orell-Füssli, 1910. The Restoration of Europe, transl. by Lewis Stiles Gannett. New York, Macmillan, 1916. Der Weltprotest gegen den versailler Frieden. Leipzig, Verlag der Neue Geist, 1920. Die zweite Haager Konferenz: Ihre Arbeiten, ihre Ergebnisse, und ihre Bedeutung. Leipzig, Nachfolger .
Esperanto textbook and vocabulary Wörterbuch Esperanto-Deutsch und Deutsch-Esperanto Lehrbuch der internationalen Hilfssprache “Esperanto” mit Wörterbuch in Esperanto-Deutsch und Deutsch-Esperanto, Berlin-Schönberg: Esperanto-Verlag, 1903 pr. Pass & Garleb, Berlin 18x12cm II, 120p. 2nd edition: Stuttgart: Franckhsche Verlagshandlung, 1905 18x12cm 91, 5p. 3rd edition: Stuttgart: Franckhsche Verlagshandlung, 1905 18x12cm 91p.
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Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1864–1921)
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Alfred Hermann Fried was born on 11 November 1864 in Vienna.
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Alfred Hermann Fried died on 5 May 1921 in Vienna.
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