Ferdinand Buisson

Ferdinand Buisson
1841 - 1932
Ferdinand Buisson  French Politician
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First Name Ferdinand
Last Name Buisson
Birthday 20th December, 1841
Birthplace Paris, France
Died 16th February, 1932
Place of Death Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, France
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Nationality French
Occupation Text politician
Occupation Politician

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 League of Education from 1902 to 1906 and the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1914 to 1926. In 1927, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to him jointly with Ludwig Quidde. Philosopher and educator, he was Director of Primary Education. He was the author of a thesis on Sebastian Castellio, in whom he saw a "liberal Protestant" in his image. Ferdinand Buisson was the president of the National Association of Freethinkers . In 1905, he chaired the parliamentary committee to implement the separation of church and state. Famous for his fight for secular education through the League of Education, he coined the term laïcité ("secularism").

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