Edmond Privat

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Edmond Privat (born with Geneva in 1889; deceased with Poker (Swiss) in 1962), Journalist, writer, Pacifist professor and , lived and taught with Neuchâtel.

After having passed its baccalaureat in 1907, he undertakes a lecture tour on the Esperanto and the French literature with the the United States. He continues then his studies with Cambridge and the Sorbonne, where he obtains an arts degree in 1911. Established in Paris during the First World War, it collaborates in the Parisian daily newspaper Time and is sent by this newspaper in Austria-Hungary and Poland. In its articles, it defends the principles of national sovereignty. It is at that time that it binds friendship with Romain Roland. In 1918, it supports its thesis of arts doctorate dealing with the Polish question.

As of the beginning of the year thirty, Edmond Privat devotes himself to India. He organizes the reception of Gandhi in Switzerland and accomplishes moreover voyages in India and England to plead the Indian cause there; he assumes in addition the presidency of the Committee for the independence of India. During the Second world war, Edmond Privat and his wife devote themselves to the assistance with the refugees.

In 1945, it is named professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature to the Université of Neuchâtel. It takes its retirement in 1959. Throughout its life, he collaborates with many newspapers, of which Rise and the Sentinel, as a chronicler of international policy. Edmond Privat was at the same time a very active pioneer of the Esperanto, pacifist convinced and a burning defender of the human rights and independence of the people. He was Quaker (member of the religious Company of the Friends). Its files are joined together in a bottom preserved by the library of the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds (Canton of Neuchâtel), in Switzerland.

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