!!!Fried, Alfred Hermann

b. Vienna, Nov. 11, 1864, 
d. Vienna, May 4, 1921, pacifist, journalist; Nobel Peace Prize 
Laureate 1911. At first assistant in a bookshop in Berlin. Together 
with B. von  Suttner he published the magazine "Die Waffen nieder" 
(renamed "Die Friedens-Warte" in 1899) from 1892-1899. Founded the 
German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft) in 1892, devoted 
himself to the cause of international understanding and participated 
actively in the Esperanto movement. During World War I he lived and 
worked in Switzerland.

!Works
Lehrbuch der internationalen Hilfssprache Esperanto, 1903; 
Handbuch der Friedensbewegung, 2 vols., 1905; Die Grundlagen des 
revolutionaeren Pazifismus, 1908; Die Grundlagen des ursaechlichen 
Pazifismus, 1916; Vom Weltkrieg zum Weltfrieden, 1916; Mein 
Kriegstagebuch, 4 vols., 1918-1920; Jugenderinnerungen, 1925.

!Literature
J. Bauer, Die oesterreichische Friedensbewegung, doctoral 
thesis, Vienna 1949.



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