!!!Suttner, Bertha Freifrau von Pseudonyme B. Oulot Jemand

b. Prague (Czech Republic), June 9, 1843, 
d. Vienna, June 21, 1914, writer. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace; 
her father came from the   Kinsky family and her mother was a relative 
of the liberation poet T. Koerner. Since her training as a singer 
remained unsuccessful she accepted a post as governess and companion 
in the house of Baron Suttner, where she met her future husband. After 
a short stay in Paris, where she was supposed to start to work as 
secretary of A. Nobel, in 1876 she secretly married Baron Arthur 
Gundaccar Suttner (b. Dec. 21, 1850, d. Dec. 10, 1902) against the 
wishes of his family and together they fled to Tiflis (now Tbilisi, 
Georgia). After reconciliation with his family the couple returned 
1885 and settled down at an estate in Harmannsdorf (Lower Austria). 
1887 S. took up contact to the only peace organization at that time, 
the "International Arbitration and Peace Association" (London), and 
made herself familiar with pacifism. 1889 publication of her principal 
work, the novel "Lay Down Your Arms" ("Die Waffen nieder!"), which was 
translated into almost all European languages; the novel made her 
world famous and was a major contribution to the promotion of peace in 
Europe and in the USA. In 1890 she founded the Austrian pacifist 
organization "Oesterreichische Friedensgesellschaft" (from 1964  
"Suttner Society"). 1892-1899 published the monthly magazine "Die 
Waffen nieder" with A. H.  Fried, whom she had met in Berlin 1891/92 
and who later continued the publication of the magazine under the 
title "Die Friedens-Warte". In addition, she chaired the peace 
committee of the League of Austrian Women´s Associations 
(founded 1902, "Bund oesterreichischer Frauenvereine"), represented 
Austria at international peace congresses, was president of the 
International Peace Office in Berne and initiated the foundation of 
the Nobel Prize for Peace, which she was awarded in 1905. Suttner died 
while organizing an international peace congress that was to be held 
in Vienna in August 1914.

!Further works
Memoiren, 1909.

!Literature
H. Kaut, B. v. S. und die Anfaenge der oe. 
Friedensbewegung, 1950; I. Reicke, B. v. S., 1952; B. Kempf, 
B. v. S., 1964; B. Hamann, B. v. S., 1986; 
H. Steffahn, B. v. S, 1998.



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