Arturo de Marcoartu

Spanish pacifist, engineer and senator

Arturo de Marcoartu (Bilbao, 1829 – San Sebastián, 1904),^[1]^: 250 XII Lord of the House of Marcoartu, was a noble Spanish pacifist, engineer and senator.^[1]^: 49 He was the first Spanish nominee for a Nobel Prize (the Nobel Peace Prize), and the only Spaniard in the late 19th-century peace movement.^[1]^: 50

History

His most notable work, and the beginning of his actions in the peace movement, was a 1876 book named Internationalism.^[1]^: 49 In 1878, he travelled to half-a-dozen Central European capitals to argue for organised peace.^[1]^: 49

De Marcoartu was a follower of Richard Cobden's free trade beliefs, attending meetings of the Cobden Club in London.^[2] In 1889, de Marcoartu sponsored an essay competition on the "burdens of production" caused by the high taxation of militarism, with a winning prize of £150.^[3] Accepting Spanish, French, and English entries, the judges for the French submissions were Léon Say, Frédéric Passy, and Jules Simon.^[3] As the head of the Spanish Engineering Corps, he was involved in transferring Latin American concessions to the United States.^[4]

Selected works

Internationalism. Stevens and Sons. 1876.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cooper, Sandi E. (1991). Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-992338-0.
^ "THE COBDEN CLUB". The Cardiff Times. 7 July 1883. hdl:10107/3389939.
^ ^a ^b "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS". Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh. 14 February 1889. hdl:10107/3786136.
^ Winseck, Dwayne R.; Pike, Robert M. (2007). Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930. Duke University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-8223-8999-6. Retrieved 5 November 2019.