# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elie-ducommun
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:03.762Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/elie-ducommun"
name: "Élie Ducommun"
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description: "A Swiss journalist who ran the world's first international peace bureau without pay — calling it pure idealism — then split the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize for the trouble."
tagline: "Swiss activist (1833-1906)"
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birthDate: "1833-02-19"
deathDate: "1906-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Geneva in 1833, Ducommun moved through tutoring, language teaching, journalism, and a stint translating for the Swiss federal Chancellery before helping found the League of Peace and Freedom in 1867. He spent nearly two decades as secretary for the Jura-Simplon Steel Company, then in 1891 took the helm of the newly formed International Peace Bureau in Bern — the first non-governmental international peace organization — and refused a salary, insisting he served only for the ideal. His organizational precision made the bureau work, and from 1895 he directed its journal, Correspondance bi-mensuelle. The Nobel committee gave him and Charles Albert Gobat the Peace Prize in 1902. He stayed at the post until his death in Bern four years later.