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Austria FAMOUS AUSTRIANS (831 words) |
 | Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich (1773–1859), Austrian foreign minister from 1809 to 1848, was the architect of the European balance of power established at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. |
| Outstanding musicians are the conductors Clemens Krauss (1893–1954), Karl Böhm (1894–1981), and Herbert von Karajan (b.1908); the pianists Artur Schnabel (1882–1951) and Alfred Brendel (b.1931); and the violinist Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962). |
| The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Baroness Berta Kinsky von Suttner (b.Prague, 1843–1914), founder of the Austrian Society of Peace Lovers and author of Lay Down Your Arms!, in 1905; and to Alfred Hermann Fried (1864–1921), a prolific publicist for the cause of international peace, in 1911. |
| European Women's Peace Conference (335 words) |
| In commemoration of the centenary of the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Bertha von Suttner in 1905 in Oslo in the year of foundation of the Norwegian state in its modern history, an international conference “Bertha Suttner ideas in present time” took place on November 12-13.2005 in her birthplace Prague the Czech Republic. |
| As Bertha Kinska - Suttner, born in what is now the Czech Republic, got married and lived in Austria, both sides agreed to organize one international conference in each of the countries. |
| The international conference in Prague is meant as a starting point for projecting the ideas of Bertha von Suttner into the present reality and for the application of her ideas rooted in peace and humanity for the benefit of mankind. |
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