Frédéric Passy

About Frédéric Passy

Who is it?: Economist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Birth Day: May 20, 1822
Birth Place: Paris, French
Died On: June 12, 1912(1912-06-12) (aged 90)\nNeuilly-sur-Seine, France
Birth Sign: Gemini
Occupation: Economist
Awards: Nobel Peace Prize (1901)

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Frédéric Passy was born on May 20, 1822 in Paris, French, is Economist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Frederic Passy was an economist and a peace activist who received the first Nobel Peace Prize along with Henri Durant, the founder of the Red Cross. Passy mooted the idea that nations would stop fighting if they engaged in free trade. He came from a family of civil servants who had been members of various governments in France. He was inspired by the work of his elders and also joined politics in order to promote his own ideas about peace and harmony through free trade. He was a devout follower of the greatest economists of those times such as Richard Cobden and believed that when nations became partners in some joint enterprise, there would be less chance of a fight cropping up between them. Being partners, the countries would settle their disputes amicably over the negotiating table without taking up arms against each other. He toured the whole of France, lecturing in various cities and universities and wrote and spoke profusely on the subject.
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Biography/Timeline

1846

Born in Paris to Felix Passy, a veteran of Waterloo, and Marie-Louis-Pauline Salleron, Passy's uncle was Hippolyte Passy, a cabinet minister for both Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon. Passy studied law and practised for a short time before accepting a position as an accountant in the State Council (Conseil de Droit) from 1846 to 1849. However, under his uncle's influence he gave up this post after three years and returned to study economics. True to his republican principles, he withdrew from politics after the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon and refused to be reconciled to the Second Empire; he was therefore ineligible for any government post. He became a professional Economist in 1857, and in 1860 he began to teach political economy both in Paris and in the provinces.

1857

His reputation was established through his Mélanges économiques (1857) essays and a lecture series given at the University of Montpellier and published as the Leçons d'économie politique. He was an advocate of free trade and adherent to the ideas of Richard Cobden. In 1877 he became a member of the French Académie des sciences morales et politiques, a component of the Institut de France; and he was a commander of the Legion of Honor. He was President of the Society of Political Economy for 70 years.

1867

Passy directly engaged in political questions, advocating educational reform and intervening to prevent war between France and Prussia during the Luxembourg Crisis of 1867. In 1868, he helped found the Ligue internationale et permanente de la paix (International and Permanent League of Peace) to avert possible Future conflicts and became its permanent secretary. When the organization dissolved during the Franco-Prussian War, Passy helped restructure it as the Société française des amis de la paix, which in 1889 became the Société d'arbitrage entre les Nations.

1881

In 1881, he won election to the Chamber of Deputies, where he advocated foreign policy changes, education and labor reform, including legislation on industrial accidents. He won reelection in 1886 but lost in 1889. He also supported a system of international conflict arbitration, which was inspired by Randal Cremer's resolution that established arbitration between the United States and England. In 1888, his efforts led to a meeting between British Parliamentary members and French deputies to discuss the concept of organized arbitration. The following year, the Inter-Parliamentary Union was established with Passy as one of its Presidents. He was a member of the International Bureau of Peace at Bern, Switzerland.

1886

He was Father to Paul Passy, a prominent Linguist, founder of the International Phonetic Association (1886).

1909

Passy's writings and speeches advocating peace were widely recognized. In 1909, he published Pour la paix, a work which chronicled the establishment of the various peace and arbitration organizations with which he was associated. From 1881 to 1902, he was professor of political economy in several colleges.

1912

He died on June 12, 1912. A short obituary was published in The New York Times the next day.