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Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer (April 21, 1837 – January 22, 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. public domain (old) This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... public domain (old) This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 (MDCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ...


The son of a clergyman, Bajer served as an officer in the Danish army, fighting in the 1864 war against Prussia and Austria where he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He was discharged in 1865, and moved to Copenhagen where he became a teacher, translator and writer. For other uses, see Prussia (disambiguation). ...


He entered the Danish Parliament in 1872 as a member of the Folketing and held a seat there for the following 23 years. As a member of parliament, he worked for the use of international arbitration to solve conflicts among nations, and it is due to Bajer's efforts that foreign relations became part of the work of the Danish Parliament and that Denmark participated in the Inter-Parliamentary Union from the beginning and earned a distinguished position among its members.[1][2] The Rigsdag was the name of the Parliament of Denmark from 1849 to 1953. ... The Folketing [], or Folketinget, is the national parliament of Denmark. ... The Inter-Parliamentary Union is an international organization established in 1889 by William Randal Cremer (United Kingdom) and Frédéric Passy (France). ...


He supported many peace organizations, both inside Denmark and Europe-wide, and helped guide the passage of a bill to reach arbitration agreements with Sweden and Norway.


Quotation

"Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law."[3]


References

  1. ^ Skou, Kaare R. (2005). Dansk politik A-Å (Danish). Aschehoug, p. 109. ISBN 87-11-11652-8.
  2. ^ Andersen, Holger (1953). "Den danske rigsdag og det interparlamentariske arbejde" (Danish) in Fabricius, Knud; Bomholt, Jul.; Hjelholt, Holger; Mackeprang, M.; Møller, Andr. (eds.): Den danske rigsdag 1849-1949 bind VI. Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlag, pp. 415-416.
  3. ^ Fredrik Bajer Quotations

External links

  • Nobel Committee information on 1908 laureates
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy (1901) • Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat (1902) • William Cremer (1903) • Institut de Droit International (1904) • Bertha von Suttner (1905) • Theodore Roosevelt (1906) • Ernesto Moneta / Louis Renault (1907) • Klas Arnoldson / Fredrik Bajer (1908) • A.M.F. Beernaert / Paul Estournelles de Constant (1909) • International Peace Bureau (1910) • Tobias Asser / Alfred Fried (1911) • Elihu Root (1912) • Henri La Fontaine (1913) • International Red Cross and Red Crescent (1917) • Woodrow Wilson (1919) • Léon Bourgeois (1920) • Hjalmar Branting / Christian Lange (1921) • Fridtjof Nansen (1922) • Austen Chamberlain / Charles Dawes (1925) Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... 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The Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law) is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law. ... Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner), (9 June 1843 in Prague, [then in Austrian Empire] - 21 June 1914 in Vienna, (then in Austria-Hungary), born as Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and was the first woman to... Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. ... Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (September 20, 1833 - February 10, 1918) had a personality as paradoxical as the term «militant pacifist» which was so often applied to him. ... Louis Renault (May 21, 1843 - February 8, 1918) was a French jurist and educator, the cowinner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Prize for Peace. ... Categories: Stub | 1844 births | 1916 deaths | Nobel Peace Prize winners | Swedish politicians ... Auguste Beernaert in 1909. ... 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Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. ... Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. ... Red Cross redirects here. ... Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924), was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. ... French politician Léon Bourgeois Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (May 21, 1851 – September 29, 1925) was a French statesman. ... Hjalmar Branting (November 23, 1860 – February 24, 1925) was a Swedish statesman and the countrys chief Social Democratic leader. ... Christian Lous Lange (September 17, 1869 – December 11, 1938) was born in Stavanger, Norway, and received the Master of Arts degree from the University of Oslo in 1893. ... 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Fredrik Bajer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (144 words)
Fredrik Bajer (April 21, 1837 – January 22, 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908.
The son of a clergyman, Bajer served as an officer in the Danish army, fighting in the 1864 war against Prussia and Austria where he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant.
He was discharged in 1865, and moved to Copenhagen where he became a teacher, translator and writer.
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