Ferdinand Buisson
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Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (20 December 1841 – 16 February 1932) was a French academic, educational bureaucrat, 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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