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Beernaert,
Auguste-Marie-François (b.
July 26, 1829, Ostend, Belg.--d. Oct. 6, 1912, Lucerne, Switz.), Belgian-Flemish
statesman, and cowinner (with Paul-H.-B. d'Estournelles de Constant) of the
Nobel Prize for Peace in 1909.
A lawyer by profession, Beernaert
was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies in 1873 and later served as
minister of public works. He was prime minister and minister of finance from
1884 to 1894. In 1895 he was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies.
He held the post of president of the
International Law Association from 1903 to 1905. He was Belgium's first
representative at the Hague peace conferences in 1899 and 1907. In 1909, when he
was 80 years old, Beernaert was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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베르나르트 (Auguste-Marie-Françios Beernaert). 1829. 7. 26 벨기에 오스탕드~1912. 10.
6 스위스 루체른.
플랑드르계 벨기에의 정치가.
80세가 되던 1909년에 폴 H.-B. 데스투르넬 드 콩스탕과 함께
노벨 평화상을 받았다.
법률가인 베르나르트는 1873년에 벨기에 하원의원으로
선출된 뒤 공공사업장관으로 일했으며, 1884~94년 총리와
재무장관을 지냈다. 1895년에는 하원의장으로 선출되었다.
그는 1903~05년 국제법협회 회장을 지냈고, 1899, 1907년에 열린
헤이그 만국평화회의에 벨기에 수석대표로 참석했다.
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