Frédéric Passy

French economist and statesman (1822-1912)

  • Fame61.6
  • Momentum9.8
  • Wikipedia2.3K
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Lived 1822–1912, aged 90France
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    73 languages
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  • Era
    1822–1912
    Aged 90
  • Awards
    2
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

He won the first Nobel Peace Prize ever awarded, sharing it in 1901 with the Red Cross founder — a French economist who spent decades lecturing across Europe and building the scaffolding of the international peace movement while violent conflicts tore the continent apart.

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Born in Paris in 1822 to a Catholic Orléanist family thick with military veterans and politicians, Passy trained in law, worked as an accountant, served briefly in the National Guard, then left it all to travel France giving economics lectures. After years of watching Europe convulse, he joined the peace movement in the 1850s, writing articles and building curricula alongside activists. While sitting in the Chamber of Deputies from 1881 to 1889, he co-developed the Inter-parliamentary Conference with British MP William Randal Cremer — the seed of what became the Inter-Parliamentary Union — and…

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