Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1910 Many famous writers from several countries have been proposed for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy has awarded it to a writer whose nomination has been supported by more than sixty German experts on art, literature,…

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Presentation Speech by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1910 Chairman of the Committee Løvland then announced that the Peace Prize for this year had been awarded to the permanent Peace Bureau in Bern. He then briefly reviewed the peace movement in Europe which, as we all know, has made steady…

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was born in Rostock on September 16, 1853. He was the eldest son of the merchant and Prussian consul Albrecht Kossel and his wife Clara, née Jeppe. He attended the secondary school in Rostock and went, in the autumn of 1872, to the newly founded University of Strassburg in…

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Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1910 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As you are aware the medical Nobel Prize has this year been conferred on the Professor of Physiology at the University of Heidelberg, Geheimrat Albrecht Kossel. Before he is presented with…

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Otto Wallach was born on March 27, 1847, in Königsberg, Germany, the son of Gerhard Wallach and his wife, née Otillie Thoma. His father was a high-ranking civil servant, who later became Auditor General at Potsdam. During his early school years at the humanistic “Gymnasium” at Potsdam, Wallach had a profound liking for history and…