Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1902
Number:7 - 3
 
Nominee:
Name:Charles Albert Gobat
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1843
Year, Death:1914
Profession:Lawyer, legislator, administrator. Secretary general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
City:Bern
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1902
 
Motivation:Gobat was secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He was one of the leading administrators in the peace movement.
 
Nominator:
Name:Ritter Wladimir von Gniewosz-Olexow
Gender:M
Profession:Member of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
City:Vienna
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: The nominator also suggested Bertha von Suttner, but Gobat was his first choice.