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Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist and pacifist (1843–1914)
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner (pronounced[ˈbɛʁtaːfɔnˈzʊtnɐ]; née Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau;[1] 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914) was an Austro-Bohemian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist.
In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903),[2] the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian and Czech laureate.
Early life
Bertha Kinský was born on 9 June 1843 at Kinský Palace in the Obecní dvůr (cz) district of Prague.[3] Her parents were the Austrian Lieutenant general (German: Feldmarschall-Leutnant) Franz Michael de Paula Josef Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (1769–1843), then recently deceased at the age of 75, and his young wife, Sophie Wilhelmine von Körner (1815–1884), who was almost fifty years his junior.[4][5]
Her father was a member of