Bertha von Suttner

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner was a CzechAustrian pacifist and novelist. In 1905 she was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, thus being the second female Nobel laureate after Marie Curies 1903 award, and the first Austrian laureate.

Suttner was born onJune 1843 at Palais Kinsky in the Obecn dvr district of Prague. Her parents were the Austrian Lieutenant general Franz de Paula Josef Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, recently deceased at the age of 75, and his wife Sophie Wilhelmine von Krner, who was fifty years his junior. Her father was a member of the House of Kinsky via descent from Vilm Kinsk. Suttners mother was of significantly lower status, being the daughter of Joseph von Krner, a cavalry officer, and a distant relative of the poet Theodor Krner. For the rest of her life, Suttner faced exclusion from the Austrian high aristocracy due to her mixed descent for instance only those with unblemished aristocratic pedigree back to their greatgreatgrandparents were eligible to be presented at court. She was additionally disadvantaged because her father, as a third son, had no great estates or other financial resources to be inherited. Suttner was baptised at the Church of Our Lady of the Snows, not a tradi

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