Albert Gobat also won the Prize that year.
He was Swiss. He trained in law and, later, politics.
On issues parliamentary, he had no peer,
Though those who knew him called him empiric.
From Grand Council of Bern to Council of States he rose,
Thus to the International Parliamentary Union, his obsession,
And so parliamentarians around the world proposed
Initiatives for ending wars: by global arbitration.
He worked to unify their focus, broaden station,
With writing, planning conferences, leading in scope.
The friendship thus established between nations
Would one day, Gobat knew, translate to hope.
Mandatory global arbitration was his ‘gun.’
He died in 1914, on the eve of World War I.
June Edvenson 