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Rosika Schwimmer

1877 - 1948

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Rosika Schwimmer (Hungarian: Schwimmer Rózsa; 11 September 1877 – 3 August 1948) was a Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist, world federalist and women's suffragist. A co-founder of the Campaign for World Government with Lola Maverick Lloyd, her radical vision of world peace led to the creation of several world federalist movements and organizations. Sixty years after she first envisaged it, the movement she helped to create indeed took a leading role in the creation of the International Criminal Court, the first permanent international tribunal tasked with charging individuals with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Schwimmer was born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1877, she graduated from public school in 1891. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rosika Schwimmer is the 1,403rd most popular writer (up from 2,239th in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 247th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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Among writers, Rosika Schwimmer ranks 1,403 out of 7,302. Before her are E. L. James, Mavro Orbini, Bulat Okudzhava, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Elsa Triolet, and Ko Un. After her are James Baldwin, Cees Nooteboom, Roland Topor, Hartmann Schedel, Machado de Assis, and Sergey Mikhalkov.

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Among people born in 1877, Rosika Schwimmer ranks 40. Before her are Said Nursî, Arthur Cecil Pigou, André Maginot, Alben W. Barkley, Princess Auguste of Bavaria, and Rudolf Hilferding. After her are Shefqet Vërlaci, Vasil Kolarov, George Hackenschmidt, Ulrich Salchow, Endre Ady, and Chaim Rumkowski. Among people deceased in 1948, Rosika Schwimmer ranks 53. Before her are Dieter Wisliceny, Béla Miklós, Rudolf Brandt, Waldemar Hoven, Josef Bühler, and Seishirō Itagaki. After her are Kenji Doihara, Wolfram Sievers, Viktor Brack, Kantarō Suzuki, Otto Rasch, and Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Rosika Schwimmer ranks 167 out of 1,077. Before her are Michael Polanyi (1891), Bayan I (600), Lajos Tichy (1935), Péter Nádas (1942), Béla Balázs (1884), and Coloman of Galicia (1208). After her are Géza Lakatos (1890), Peter Delyan (1009), Georg Solti (1912), Imi Lichtenfeld (1910), András Arató (1945), and Magda Szabó (1917).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Rosika Schwimmer ranks 16. Before her are Emma Orczy (1865), Max Nordau (1849), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Péter Nádas (1942), and Béla Balázs (1884). After her are Magda Szabó (1917), Hannah Szenes (1921), Attila József (1905), György Konrád (1933), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), and Mór Jókai (1825).

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