Fredrik Bajer
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Fredrik Bajer , 1837-1922, Danish pacifist and writer. He helped found the International Peace Bureau at Bern in 1891, and he shared the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize with K. P. Arnoldson .
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