No Nobel Banquet 1914-1919 due to war.

The International Committee of the Red Cross – 1917 The only Nobel Peace Prize awarded during the years of World War I was that for 1917 given to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The award ceremony took place on December 10, 1917, at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, with Mr. Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland,…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The following account of the work of Karl Gjellerup is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic Biographical-Critical Essay Karl Gjellerup was born in 1857 and died on October 13, 1919. Like Henrik Pontoppidan, he came from a family of ministers. He chose a career in the clergy although he felt no special calling for it; rather…

The following account of the work of Karl Gjellerup is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic Karl Gjellerup was born in 1857 and died on October 13, 1919. Like Henrik Pontoppidan, he came from a family of ministers. He chose a career in the clergy although he felt no special calling for it; rather his inclinations…

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I was born on June 2, 1857, in the Roholte vicarage at Praestö. My father was Pastor Carl Adolph Gjellerup, my mother, Anna Fibiger. After my father’s death in 1860, in Landet vicarage on Lolland (from which I still have a number of memories), I went in November of the same year to the home…