BUISSON, FERDINAND 93a ), French education ist, was born at Paris on Dec. 20 1841. He became an inspector of primary education (187o), inspector-general in 1878, and in 1890 director. He left the Education Department in 1896 to take the chair of education at the Sorbonne, which he held until 1902. His most important written work is his Dictionnaire de Pedagogie (1882-93) . At the general election of 1902 he was returned to the chamber of deputies as a radical socialist by the arrondissement of Paris. He supported the policy of M. Combes, and presided over the commission for the separation of church and state. He sat in the Chamber until 1914, and re-entered it in 1919. M. Buisson was for 13 years president of the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme and, after retiring from active work in the Ligue, remained its honorary president. He was one of the earliest advocates of a League of Nations, and in 1916 the Ligue passed a resolution drafted by him that permanent peace could only be secured by this means. His life-work for peace was recognized in 1927 by the award to him of the Nobel peace prize.