Bertha kinsky

 Bertha Von Suttner nee Kinsky was a staunch advocate for disarmament and international cooperation. She argued that « Peace is the pinnacle of human progress ». She was a pacifist a writer and a Nobel laureate. She’s immortalised and commemorated with stamps coins the statue and Institute that continues her work today. But common with other Nobel prize winners, her life was not dull. Let’s take a look at Kinsky.

Timeline

1843 Born

Bertha was born 9th June 1843 at Kinsky Palace, Prague. Her father had recently died at the age of 75. Her mother was 28.


1856 Age 13


Family gambling losses forced to move to Vienna And Bertha declined a Prince’s marriage proposal at 13.


1859 Further gambling losses forced to move to klosterneuburg.








1860 Bertha was briefly engaged to an older wealthy man and published her novella Erdentraume im monde


1867 Bertha tried her hand at opera singing but Stage fright got the better of her.

1872 Bethel became engaged to Prince Adolf who died at Sea escaping his debts

1873 Age 30. Bertha took work as a tutor for the Von Suttner family. Here she met her future husband Arthur. But the family did not approve.

1876 took a position a secretary and housekeeper to Alfred Nobel in Paris. There’s appointment with brief, but she remaining contact with Alfred Nobel for many years.


1876 Married in secret to Arthur Von Suttner and they worked teaching by the Black Sea. Bertha and Arthur earned a living through their writing.

1889 Book Die Waffen neider! Lay Down YourvArms was published. This has been published in 12 languages. It depicts the harsh realities of war from a woman’s perspective.

1890 founded a movement

1891 Attended the peace Congress

1901 Nobel peace prize first awarded and Nobel credited Bertha’s dedication as part of the reason he created it

1905 Became the first female Nobel peace prize winner for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war”

1914 Bertha died on the 21st of June. Seven days later Franz Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated triggering World War I.

1965 Stamp

2005 Stamp


  • She was commemorated on a 1965 Austrian postage stamp and a 2005 German postage stamp.
2019 she was commemorated in a Google doodle 114 years to the day after being awarded the 1905 piece prize

Today, the Bertha von Suttner Peace Institute in The Hague continues the work


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