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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- Quidde, Ludwig 1858-1941. German politician and pacifist. He shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Two qualities stand out in Quidde's writing and in his work as a whole: moderation and courage.
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Union, while the younger Quidde had joined the German Peace Society in 1892.
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The wife of Ludwig Quidde (1927) remained in Munich when he fled to Geneva from Nazi Germany.
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Quidde did soften his public comments about the Nazi regime in order not to bring reprisal upon his wife.
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Quidde, who was a member of the Bavarian legislature as early as 1907 and of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919-20, supported the principle of arbitration and was a champion of the League of Nations.
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Together with Ludwig Quidde he had been active in the German Peace Society.
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Quidde, the historian, and the journalist Carl von Ossietzky.
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Professor Quidde, early in the reign, made an extraordinarily ingenious, but quite unjustifiable, comparison of him to Caligula, which, though only consisting of classical quotations and making no mention of the Emperor, was seen by everybody to refer to him and has caused discussion ever since.
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When World War I broke out, Quidde went to The Hague, attempting to maintain ties with English and French peace groups.
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Even in exile, Quidde continued to attend World Peace Congresses, to publish articles, and to exercise his organizational talents by founding the
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