Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (20 December 1841 – 16 February 1932) was a French

France

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 academic, educational bureaucrat, pacifist

Pacifism

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 and Socialist

Socialism

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 politician. He presided over the Human Rights League

Human Rights League

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 (LDH) from 1914 to 1926.

Buisson helped create France's system of universal, nonsecratarian primary education in the 1880s.

He received together with the German politician Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde was a German pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: that of Bismarck ; the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II ; the Weimar Republic ; and, finally, Nazi...

 the Nobel Peace Prize

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in 1927.