Alfred Hermann Fried

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

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1864–1921
Aged 57

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Updated 2026-05-29

Austrian pacifist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 for co-founding the German peace movement. Also championed Esperanto, publishing an Esperanto textbook and dictionary in the early 1900s.

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Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Fried was also a supporter of Esperanto. He is the author of an Esperanto textbook and an Esperanto–German and German–Esperanto dictionary, first published in 1903 and republished in 1905.

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