Bertha von Suttner

Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor

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Lived 1843–1914, aged 71

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1843–1914
Aged 71
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Updated 2026-06-08

She wrote novels and argued against war at a time when both were unfashionable for noblewomen — and in 1905 became the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Born Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau on 9 June 1843, Bertha von Suttner grew up Austrian nobility but turned her attention to pacifism and literature. She wrote and campaigned steadily against militarism through the late 19th century. In 1905, two years after Marie Curie's physics prize, von Suttner became the second woman to receive a Nobel and the first to take the Peace Prize — also the first Austrian laureate in any category. She died on 21 June 1914, weeks before the war she spent decades warning against began.

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