Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austrian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate. The Nobel Peace Prize 1905, announced December 10, 1905. Bertha von Suttner, “for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war”. Bertha von Suttner: born 1843, Prague, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).