The Nobel Peace Prize 1905
Awarded on: 1905-12-10
"for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war"
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
Born: 1843-06-09 in Prague, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic)
Gender: female
Field: Austrian novelist and pacifist (1843–1914)
Biography
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austro-Bohemian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian and Czech laureate.