Hodgson Pratt

Hodgson Pratt ( born January 10, 1824 in Bath, Somerset ( England); † February 26, 1907 in Le Pecq -sur -Seine, Yvelines, France) was a British pacifist.

Life

Pratt graduated from the Haileybury College in Coventry and London University, where he studied oriental languages. He worked 14 years for the East India Company and the Bengal government in 1861 and returned back to England.

He founded in 1880 the International Arbitration and Peace Association ( IAPA ) in London and attended as a representative many European cities, such as Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Budapest, Milan and Rome. He led the British delegation to the Peace Congress 1882 in Brussels, which was attended by over 500 delegates from many countries. In 1883 he gave Henri La Fontaine the impetus to establish the Belgian Society for conciliation and peace. Together with Franz Wirth he founded in 1886, the Frankfurt Peace Society.

Pratt was 1890 Chairman of the World Peace Congress in London. He was also the Kommissonsmitglied in Rome he co-founded during the World Peace Congress in 1891 Permanent Bureau International de la Paix (English: International Peace Bureau, German: International Permanent Peace Bureau ), which had its headquarters in Bern ( Switzerland ). In 1894 he was invited by Pierre de Coubertin, to participate as an honorary member in the founding congress of the IOC.

Pratt was nominated in 1906 for the Nobel Peace Prize, but which instead went to the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

Publications

  • A few words on the question of teaching the Bible in government schools in India. Chapman and Hall, 1859
  • University education in England for natives of India. Considered with a view to qualify them for the learned professions or the public service; and to create a class who Shall mediate in between the Indian people and Their English rulers. James Ridgway, London 1860
  • Édouard Eugène Descamps: The Organization of International Arbitration. Summarized and translated by Hodgson Pratt. International Arbitration & Peace Association, London 1897
  • Gustave de Molinari Preface to: The Society of Tomorrow. A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization. 1899 (reprint Garland, New York 1972, ISBN 0-8240-0295-4 )
  • International arbitration. Its necessity and its practicability. Reeves / Bonn, London 1898
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