Ferdinand Buisson
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Buisson, Ferdinand Édouard (fĕrdēnäN' ādwär' büēsôN'), 1841-1932, French educator and Nobel Peace Prize winner. He studied at the Sorbonne and later taught (1866-70) in Switzerland. After 1870 he served in the French department of education, as an inspector of schools and a director of primary education, resigning in 1886 to become professor of pedagogy at the Sorbonne. He produced the Dictionnaire de pédagogie (1882-93). From 1902 to 1914 and again from 1919 to 1924, he was a member of the chamber of deputies and worked actively for civil rights. An ardent pacifist, he attended (1867) the first congress of the International Peace League; with Ludwig Quidde of Germany he received the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize.
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French educator. An ardent pacifist, he shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (December 20, 1841 – February 16, 1932) was a French academic, educational bureaucrat, Protestant pastor, pacifist and Socialist politician. He presided over the Human Rights League (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 the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927.
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