Alfred Hermann Fried

Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1864–1921)

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Lived 1864–1921, aged 57Austria
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  • Era
    1864–1921
    Aged 57
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Updated 2026-06-09

An Austrian journalist who spent decades arguing that war could be abolished through law and organization — then won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 for the effort, shared with a Dutch jurist most people have never heard of.

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Alfred Hermann Fried was born in Vienna on 11 November 1864 into a Jewish family, and built a career as a publicist and journalist with an obsessive focus: the belief that international structures could make war obsolete. He co-founded the German peace movement and spent years writing, organizing, and advocating for legal frameworks to replace armed conflict. A committed Esperantist, he published a textbook and dual-language dictionary for the constructed language in 1903, republished two years later. In 1911 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Tobias Asser, a Dutch legal scholar. He died in…

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