Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert | Prime Minister, Nobel Peace Prize, Peace Negotiator
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Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert was a Belgian-Flemish statesman and cowinner (with Paul-H.-B. d’Estournelles de Constant) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1909. A lawyer by profession, Beernaert was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies in 1873 and later served as minister of public works. He
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Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert (born July 26, 1829, Ostend, Belgium—died October 6, 1912, Lucerne, Switzerland) was a Belgian-Flemish statesman and cowinner (with Paul-H.-B. d’Estournelles de Constant) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1909.

A lawyer by profession, Beernaert was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies in 1873 and later served as minister of public works. He was prime minister and minister of finance from 1884 to 1894. In 1895 he was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies.