Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
1833 – 1918 · aged 85
Italian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1833–1918)
- Born
- 20 Sept 1833 · Milan
- Died
- 30 Jan 1918 · Milan
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- 20 Sept 1833BornBorn in Milan
- 1907AwardNobel Peace Prize
- 30 Jan 1918DiedDied in Milan
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Major world events during their lifetime (1833 – 1918).
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
Biography
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Italian: [eɾˈnɛsto teoˈdɔːɾo moˈneːta]; September 20, 1833 – February 10, 1918) was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto In varietate unitas! which later inspired the motto of the European Union.
At age 15, Moneta participated in the Five Days of Milan (1848 uprising against Austrian rule). He later attended the military academy in Ivrea. In 1859 he joined Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand, and also fought in the ranks of the Italian army against the Austrians in 1866.
Subsequently, he became an international peace activist.
Between 1867 and 1896 he was editor of the Milan democratic paper Il Secolo, published by Edoardo Sonzogno.
In 1890 he founded the Lombard Association for Peace and Arbitration (Unione Lombarda per la Pace e l'Arbitrato), which called for disarmament and envisaged the creation of a League of Nations and Permanent Court of Arbitration. He won (with Louis Renault) the Nobel Peace Prize in 1907.
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