Arturo de Marcoartu
Arturo de Marcoartu (Bilbao, 1829 – San Sebastian, 1904),[1]:250 XII Lord of the House of Marcoartu, was a noble Spanish pacifist, engineer and senator.[1]:49 He was the first Spanish nominee for a Nobel Prize (the Nobel Peace Prize), and the only Spaniard in the late 19th-century peace movement.[1]:50
History
His most notable work, and the beginning of his actions in the peace movement, was a 1876 book named Internationalism.[1]:49 In 1878, he travelled to half-a-dozen Central European capitals to argue for organised peace.[1]:49
De Marcoartu was a follower of Richard Cobden's free trade beliefs, attending meetings of the Cobden Club in London.[2] In 1889, de Marcoartu sponsored an essay competition on the "burdens of production" caused by the high taxation of militarism, with a winning prize of £150.[3] Accepting Spanish, French, and English entries, the judges for the French submissions were Léon Say, Frédéric Passy, and Jules Simon.[3] As the head of the Spanish Engineering Corps, he was involved in transferring Latin American concessions to the United States.[4]
Selected works
- Internationalism. Stevens and Sons. 1876.
References
- Cooper, Sandi E. (1991). Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199923380.
- "THECOBDENCIUBj - The Cardiff Times". David Duncan and William Ward. 7 July 1883. hdl:10107/3389939. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - "MISCELLANEOUSITEMS - Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh". James Davies and Edward Jones Davies. 14 February 1889. hdl:10107/3786136. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Winseck, Dwayne R.; Pike, Robert M. (2007). Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930. Duke University Press. p. 62. ISBN 9780822389996. Retrieved 5 November 2019.