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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Élie Ducommun

1833 - 1906

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Élie Ducommun (19 February 1833, Geneva – 7 December 1906, Bern) was a Swiss peace activist. He was a Nobel laureate, awarded the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with Charles Albert Gobat.Born in Geneva, he worked as a tutor, language teacher, journalist and a translator for the Swiss federal Chancellery (1869–1873). In 1867 he helped to found the Ligue de la paix et de la liberté (League of Peace and Freedom), though he continued working at other positions, including secretary for the Jura-Simplon Steel Company from 1873 to 1891. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Élie Ducommun has received more than 106,561 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Élie Ducommun is the 31st most popular social activist (up from 43rd in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 37th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Social Activist.

Élie Ducommun is most famous for his work with the Red Cross. He was the president of the Swiss branch of the Red Cross and he was also the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Élie Ducommun ranks 31 out of 538. Before him are Bertha von Suttner, Thomas Müntzer, Emiliano Zapata, Omar Mukhtar, Martin Niemöller, and Pheidippides. After him are Ferdinand Lassalle, Simon Wiesenthal, Sadako Sasaki, Emily Greene Balch, Simon bar Kokhba, and Nicholas Winton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Élie Ducommun ranks 7. Before him are Alfred Nobel, Johannes Brahms, Alexander Borodin, Wilhelm Dilthey, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, and Benjamin Harrison. After him are Alfred von Schlieffen, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Félicien Rops, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Léon Bonnat, and Edward Burne-Jones. Among people deceased in 1906, Élie Ducommun ranks 6. Before him are Paul Cézanne, Pierre Curie, Henrik Ibsen, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Christian IX of Denmark. After him are Archduke Otto of Austria, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Susan B. Anthony, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Georgy Gapon, and Anton Arensky.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Élie Ducommun ranks 24 out of 876. Before him are Johann Bernoulli (1667), Charles Albert Gobat (1843), Albert Hofmann (1906), Ursula Andress (1936), Carl Spitteler (1845), and Bruno Ganz (1941). After him are Arnold Böcklin (1827), Jacob Burckhardt (1818), Conrad Gessner (1516), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), and Erich von Däniken (1935).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Switzerland

Among social activists born in Switzerland, Élie Ducommun ranks 4. Before him are Henry Dunant (1828), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), and Jean-Paul Marat (1743). After him are Jean Ziegler (1934), Hector Hodler (1887), Felix Manz (1498), Gustave Moynier (1826), and Bruno Manser (1954).

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