Ferdinand Buisson

Ferdinand Édouard Buisson
Born	(1841-12-20)December 20, 1841 Paris, France
Died	February 2, 1932(1932-02-02) (aged 90) Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	politician
Known for	Nobel Peace Prize in 1927

Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (20 December 1841 – 16 February 1932) was a French academic, educational bureaucrat, pacifist and Radical-Socialist (left liberal) 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.

References

• Nobel Committee information on 1927 Nobel Peace Prize winners.