Fredrik Bajer
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Fredrik Bajer (April 21, 1837 – January 22, 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908.
The son of a clergyman, Bajer served as an officer in the Danish army, fighting in the 1864 war against Prussia and Austria where he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He was discharged in 1865, and moved to Copenhagen where he became a teacher, translator and writer.
He entered the Danish Parliament in 1872 and held a seat there for the following 23 years.
He supported many peace organizations, both inside Denmark and Europe-wide, and helped guide the passage of a bill to reach arbitration agreements with Sweden and Norway.
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"Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law." Fredrik Bajer
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1901: Dunant, Passy | 1902: Ducommun, Gobat | 1903: Cremer | 1904: IDI | 1905: Suttner | 1906: Roosevelt | 1907: Moneta, Renault | 1908: Arnoldson, Bajer | 1909: Beernaert, Estournelles de Constant | 1910: IPB 1911: Asser, Fried | 1912: Root | 1913: La Fontaine | 1917: ICRC | 1919: Wilson | 1920: Bourgeois | 1921: Branting, Lange | 1922: Nansen | 1925: Chamberlain, Dawes |
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