Alfred Hermann Fried
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Alfred Hermann Fried (November 11, 1864 in Vienna, Austria- May 5, 1921 in Vienna), was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911.
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Life
Fried left school at the age of 15 and started to work in a book store in Vienna. In 1883 he moved to Berlin, where he opened a book shop of its own in 1887. Beside his business he started to write and beginning from 1892 he started to print the magazine Die Waffen nieder! (Lay down your arms) together with Bertha von Suttner. In articles published within this magazine and in another magazine following the old one titled Die Friedenswarte (the peace watch) he articulated his pacifist ideas.
In 1892 he was a co-founder of the German peace movement. He was one of the fathers of the idea of a modern organization to assure world-wide peace (the principle idea was fulfilled in the League of Nations and after the Second World War in the UNO).
Fried was a prominent member of the Esperanto-movement. In 1903 he published the book Lehrbuch der internationalen Hilfssprache Esperanto (Textbook of the international language Esperanto). In 1911 he received the Nobel Peace Prize together with Tobias Asser. During the First World War he lived in Switzerland and died in Vienna in 1921.
Work
- Das Abrüstungs-Problem: Eine Untersuchung. Berlin, Gutman, 1904.
- The German Emperor and the Peace of the World, with a Preface by Norman Angell. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
- Die Grundlagen des revolutionären Pacifismus. Tübingen, Mohr, 1908. Translated into French by Jean Lagorgette as Les Bases du pacifisme: Le Pacifisme réformiste et le pacifisme «révolutionnaire». Paris, Pedone, 1909.
- Handbuch der Friedenshewegung. Wien, Oesterreichischen Friedensgesellschaft, 1905. 2nd ed., Leipzig, Verlag der «Friedens-Warte», 1911.
- «Intellectual Starvation in Germany and Austria», in Nation, 110 (March 20, 1920) 367-368.
- International Cooperation. Newcastle-on-Tyne, Richardson [1918].
- Das internationale Leben der Gegenwart. Leipzig, Teubner, 1908.
- «The League of Nations: An Ethical Institution», in Living Age, 306 (August 21, 1920) 440-443.
- Mein Kriegstagebuch. 4 Bde. Zürich, Rascher, 1918-1920.
- Pan-Amerika. Zürich, Orell-Füssli, 1910.
- The Restoration of Europe, transl. by Lewis Stiles Gannett. New York, Macmillan, 1916.
- Der Weltprotest gegen den versailler Frieden. Leipzig, Verlag der Neue Geist, 1920.
- Die zweite Haager Konferenz: Ihre Arbeiten, ihre Ergebnisse, und ihre Bedeutung. Leipzig, Nachfolger [1908].
See also
References
- About Alfred Hermann Fried (http://www.nobel-winners.com/Peace/alfred_fried.html)
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