Élie Ducommun
Swiss activist (1833-1906)
- Fame57.5
- Momentum3.3
- Switzerland rank#160
- Fame57.5
- Momentum3.3
- Switzerland rank#160
- Wikipedia966
SwitzerlandA 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.
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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…
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