Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1916
Number:2 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:P Ahlberg
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1864
Profession:Policeman. Editor of the Ido periodical
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Louis Lazare Zamenhof
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1859
Year, Death:1917
Profession:Polish physician and oculist
City:Warsaw
Country:POLAND (PL)
 
Motivation:Ahlberg was the editor of the Ido periodical "Mondo" (Ido is an artificial language constructed by the French logician and Esperantist Louis de Beaufront). Zamenhof invented Esperanto, the most important of the international artificial languages.
 
Nominator:
Name:Carl Albert Lindhagen
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1860
Year, Death:1946
Profession:Member of the Swedish parliament
City:Stockholm
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Comments: The nominator primarily suggested that the prize was equally divided between Ahlberg and Zamenhof. If this was not agreed upon by the Committee, he suggested the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace.