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Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (20 December 1841 – 16 February 1932) was a French educational bureaucrat, pacifist, and Radical-Socialist (left liberal) politician. He presided over the League of Education from 1902 to 1906 and over the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1914 to 1926.
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (December 20, 1841-February 16, 1932), «the world’s most persistent pacifist», was born in Paris, the son of a Protestant judge of the St.-Étienne Tribunal. For his ardent partisanship of pacifist, Radical-Socialist, anticlerical views he was vilified by journalists, attacked by clerics and conservative scholars ...
Ferdinand Buisson, né le 20 décembre 1841 à Paris et mort le 16 février 1932 à Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, est un philosophe, pédagogue et homme politique français. Il est cofondateur, en 1898, de la Ligue des droits de l'homme , qu'il préside de 1914 à 1926.
Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson (born Dec. 20, 1841, Paris, France—died Feb. 16, 1932, Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine) was a French educator who reorganized the French primary school system and who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1927 jointly with the German pacifist Ludwig Quidde.
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Ferdinand Buisson. The Nobel Peace Prize 1927. Born: 20 December 1841, Paris, France. Died: 16 February 1932, Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, France. Residence at the time of the award: France.
Ludwig Quidde was awarded the Peace Prize in 1927 for his lifelong work in the cause of peace. He shared the Prize with the Frenchman Ferdinand Buisson. Quidde had a doctorate in history, but received no official appointments because of his opposition to the German Kaiser.
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French statesman and educator Ferdinand Buisson helped to found the League of Human Rights in 1898. His peacemaking efforts as the league’s president from 1913 to 1926, including the period of World War I, in addition to his postwar work to reconcile adversaries France and Germany, earned him the 1927 Nobel prize for peace.
