L'Institut Franco-Allemand de la Reconciliation

The L'Institut Franco-Allemand de la Réconciliation (German: French-German Institute for Reconciliation) was one in 1913 by the French Orientalist and translator Henriette Meyer (1876-1946) and the German biologist and pacifist Ernst Haeckel association created which aim had to promote a lasting peace between the two countries.

The founders also published a magazine called "La Réconciliation". In the leading article "Reason and War" in the first issue of the magazine, E. Haeckel lamented the pathological chauvinism that had gripped France, Great Britain and Germany and called pacifism a duty of humanity.

Individual evidence

^ Robert J. Richards: The Tragic Sense of Life. Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-226-71214-7 , p. 432.
^ Bibliothèque nationale de France : Henriette Meyer dataset

[1] Robert J. Richards: The Tragic Sense of Life. Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-226-71214-7 , p. 432.

[2] Bibliothèque nationale de France : Henriette Meyer dataset