Alfred Hermann Fried

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Alfred Hermann Fried
Born ( 1864-11-11 ) 11 November 1864
Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died 5 May 1921 (1921-05-05) (aged 56)
Vienna, Austria
Feuerhalle Simmering , grave of Alfred Hermann Fried

Alfred Hermann Fried ( German pronunciation: [??alf?eːt ?h??man ?f?iːt] ; 11 November 1864 ? 4 May 1921) was an Austrian Jewish pacifist , publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser ) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Fried was also a supporter of Esperanto . He is the author of an Esperanto textbook and an Esperanto-German and German-Esperanto dictionary, first published in 1903 and republished in 1905. [1]

Life [ edit ]

Born in Vienna, Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire , to a Hungarian-jewish family, father from Szigetvar and mother, Bertha Engel(whose parents were Leopold Engel born 1811 and Betti Weiss born 1820, both in Budapest) [2] from Budapest. Fried left school at the age of 15 and started to work in a bookshop. In 1883 he moved to Berlin, where he opened a bookshop of his own in 1887. Following the publication by Bertha von Suttner of Die Waffen nieder ! ( Lay Down Your Arms ) in 1889, he and von Suttner began in 1892 to print a magazine of the same name. In articles published within Die Waffen nieder! and its successor, Die Friedenswarte ( The Peace Watch ), he articulated his pacifist philosophy.

In 1892 he was a co-founder of the German Peace Society ( Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft ). He was one of the fathers of the idea of a modern organisation to assure worldwide peace (the principal idea was developed in the League of Nations and after the Second World War in the UN ).

Fried was a prominent member of the Esperanto movement . In 1903 he published the book Lehrbuch der internationalen Hilfssprache Esperanto ( Textbook of the International Language Esperanto ). [1]

In 1909 he collaborated with Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine of the Central Office of International Associations in the preparation of the Annuaire de la Vie Internationale . [3]

In 1911 he received the Nobel Peace Prize together with Tobias Asser .

During World War I, Fried moved to neutral Switzerland, and continued to advocate international peace . He died in his hometown, Vienna, in 1921. [4] His ashes are buried at Feuerhalle Simmering . [5]

Work [ edit ]

  • Das Abrustungs-Problem: Eine Untersuchung. Berlin, Gutman, 1904.
  • Abschied von Wien [6]
  • The German Emperor and the Peace of the World, with a Preface by Norman Angell . London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
  • Die Grundlagen des revolutionaren Pacifismus. Tubingen, Mohr, 1908. Translated into French by Jean Lagorgette as Les Bases du pacifisme: Le Pacifisme reformiste et le pacifisme ≪revolutionnaire≫. Paris, Pedone, 1909.
  • Handbuch der Friedensbewegung. (Handbook of the Peace Movement) Wien, Oesterreichische Friedensgesellschaft, 1905. 2nd ed., Leipzig, Verlag der ≪Friedens-Warte≫, 1911.
  • ≪Intellectual Starvation in Germany and Austria≫, in Nation, 110 (March 20, 1920) 367?368.
  • International Cooperation. Newcastle upon Tyne, Richardson [1918].
  • Das internationale Leben der Gegenwart. Leipzig, Teubner, 1908.
  • ≪The League of Nations: An Ethical Institution≫, in Living Age, 306 (August 21, 1920) 440?443.
  • Mein Kriegstagebuch. (My War Journal) 4 Bde. Zurich, Rascher, 1918?1920.
  • Pan-Amerika. Zurich, Orell-Fussli, 1910.
  • The Restoration of Europe, transl. by Lewis Stiles Gannett. New York, Macmillan, 1916.
  • Der Weltprotest gegen den versailler Frieden. Leipzig, Verlag der Neue Geist, 1920.
  • Die zweite Haager Konferenz: Ihre Arbeiten, ihre Ergebnisse, und ihre Bedeutung. Leipzig, Nachfolger [1908].

Esperanto textbook and vocabulary [ edit ]

  • Worterbuch Esperanto-Deutsch und Deutsch-Esperanto
  • Lehrbuch der internationalen Hilfssprache “Esperanto” mit Worterbuch in Esperanto-Deutsch und Deutsch-Esperanto , Berlin-Schonberg: Esperanto-Verlag, 1903 pr. Pass & Garleb, Berlin 18x12cm II, 120p. [1]
    • 2nd edition: Stuttgart: Franckhsche Verlagshandlung, 1905 18x12cm 91, 5p.
    • 3rd edition: Stuttgart: Franckhsche Verlagshandlung, 1905 18x12cm 91p.

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b c Added, Roland (2011-04-28). "Lehrbuch Fried 1903 / lernolibro de la nobelpremiito Alfred Hermann Fried" . Ipernity.com . Retrieved 2012-09-25 .
  2. ^ https://www.geni.com/people/Bertha-Fried/6000000010469540049
  3. ^ Rayward, W. Boyd (1993). World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services . American Library Association. ISBN   9780838906095 . Retrieved 4 November 2018 .
  4. ^ Fritz Henriksson (1938). The Nobel prizes and their founder, Alfred Nobel . Printed by A. Bonniers boktryckeri. p. 28.
  5. ^ "Alfred Fried" .
  6. ^ "Abschied von Wien - Alfred Hermann Fried - ELibraryAustria" . www.literature.at . Archived from the original on 29 September 2007 . Retrieved 15 January 2022 .
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