| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1911 |
| Number: | 11 - 1 |
| |
Nominee 1:
|
| Name: | Friedrich Wilhelm Förster |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1869 |
| Year, Death: | 1966 |
| Profession: | Professor of Mathematics |
| City: | Berlin |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| |
Nominee 2:
|
| Name: | Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1851 |
| Year, Death: | 1925 |
| Profession: | Senator (1905-1923). Former cabinet minister. |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1920 |
| |
| Motivation: | Förster produced numerous scientific works and promoted ethics, peace and international arbitration. He was aiming to improve the relations between France and Germany. Förster initiated the first international "race congress" in London in 1911.
Bourgeois was chairman of the French delegation to the Peace Conferences at The Hague 1899 and 1907. He was a member of the French parliament's peace group, and he was a proponent of international law and arbitration. |
| |
Nominator:
|
| Name: | Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d`Estournelles de Constant (Baron de Constant de Rébecque) |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1852 |
| Year, Death: | 1924 |
| Profession: | Member of the French parliament. Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1909. |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
| |
| Comments: |
Bourgeois was also on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested. |
| |
