Bertha von Suttner
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Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austrian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Priz
Suttner, c. 1906
Photograph of Countess Bertha Sophie Felicitas Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau in her youth (1873)
Schloss Harmannsdorf, Austria
Suttner's residence in Tbilisi
Alfred Nobel
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. Nobel is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He work
Bertha von Suttner
…1876, with the encouragement of her employers, she answered a newspaper advertisement which led to her briefly becoming secretary and housekeeper to Alfred Nobel in Paris. In the few weeks of her employment, she and Nobel developed a friendship, and Nobel may have made romantic overtures. However, she remained…
Nobel in 1896
The birthplace of Alfred Nobel at Norrlandsgatan in Stockholm
Alfred Nobel at a young age in the 1850s
Portrait of Nobel by Gösta Florman (1831–1900)