Background
He was born in Brussels, Belgium April 22, 1854.
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He was born in Brussels, Belgium April 22, 1854.
He studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
He was admitted to the bar in 1877. He was elected a senator in 1892, later becoming president of the Belgian Senate, and for many years taught international law at the University of Brussels. His predominant interest, however, was the furtherance of world peace, and for his untiring efforts in this direction he was awarded the international recognition. He presided over more than twenty international peace congresses, and in 1907 was nominated president of the International Peach Bureau in Brussels. He was his country's delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1920 and planned a "magnissima carta" for a United States of the World.
He established a reputation as an authority on international law. Together with his sister he found in 1890 the Belgian League for the Rights of Women. He was the author of a number of legal handbooks and a documentary history of international arbitration: Traité de la contrefaçon (1888), Pasicrisie internationale (1902) and others.
He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913.
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Henri La Fontaine was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes in Brussels.
