Alfred Hermann Fried

Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, 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 of Esperanto).

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.[1]

In 1911 he received the Nobel Peace Prize together with Tobias Asser. During the First World War he lived in Switzerland and died in Vienna in 1921.[2] His ashes are buried at Feuerhalle Simmering.

• Das Abrüstungs-Problem: Eine Untersuchung. Berlin, Gutman, 1904.
• Abschied von Wien[3]
• The German Emperor and the Peace of the World, with a Preface by Norman Angell. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
• Die Grundlagen des revolutionären Pacifismus. Tübingen, Mohr, 1908. Translated into French by Jean Lagorgette as Les Bases du pacifisme: Le Pacifisme réformiste et le pacifisme «révolutionnaire». 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. Zürich, Rascher, 1918–1920.
• Pan-Amerika. Zürich, Orell-Füssli, 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].

• List of Jewish Nobel laureates
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• List of Austrian Jews
• List of Austrian writers
• List of Austrians

• Roger Chickering: Imperial Germany and A World Without War : The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892–1914. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1975, ISBN 0-691-10036-5.
• Walter Göhring: Verdrängt und Vergessen – Friedensnobelpreisträger. Alfred Hermann Fried. Kremayr & Scheriau, Wien 2006, ISBN 978-3-218-00768-9
• Bernhard Kupfer: Lexikon der Nobelpreisträger. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-491-72451-1
• Petra Schönemann-Behrens: „Organisiert die Welt“. Leben und Werk des Friedensnobelpreisträgers Alfred Hermann Fried (1864–1921). Dissertation, Universität Bremen 2004.
• Bernhard Tuider: Alfred Hermann Fried. Pazifist im Ersten Weltkrieg – Illusion und Vision. VDM, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-639-25061-9
• About Alfred Hermann Fried
• Alfred Hermann Fried (November 11, 1864 – May 5, 1921) ( ( 2009-10-25)
• Alfred Hermann Fried on Nobelprize.org