Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Élie Ducommun's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
The Generous Provider
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Élie Ducommun (19 February 1833, Geneva – 7 December 1906, Bern) was a Swiss peace activist. The birth-card coordinate for February 19 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1902 Peace prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1902 The Nobel Peace Prize — for his untiring and skilful directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau
1902 — The Nobel Peace Prize
“for his untiring and skilful directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau”
Shared with Albert Gobat (J♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
103 other Peace laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
Élie Ducommun's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Élie Ducommun. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
Élie Ducommun in the public record
He was a Nobel laureate, awarded the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with Charles Albert Gobat. Born in Geneva, he worked as a tutor, language teacher, journalist and a translator for the Swiss federal Chancellery (1869–1873). In 1867 he helped to found the Ligue de la paix et de la liberté (League of Peace and Freedom), though he continued working at other positions, including secretary for the Jura-Simplon Steel Company from 1873 to 1891. That year, he was appointed director of the newly formed International Peace Bureau, the first non-governmental international peace organization, based in Bern. He refused to accept a salary for the position, stating that he wished to serve in this capacity solely for reasons of idealism. From 1895 he was made the director of Correspondance bi-mensuelle, journal of the International Peace Office. His keen organizational skills ensured the group's success. He was awarded in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902, and served as director of the organization until his death in 1906.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Élie Ducommun (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Élie Ducommun, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Élie Ducommun's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- A♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Analytical Creator
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Wise Guide
- J♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Creative Messenger
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective
Born in Geneva, he worked as a tutor, language teacher, journalist and a translator for the Swiss federal Chancellery (1869–1873).
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: journalist, teacher.
Other laureates with this card
- Ben R. Mottelson — 1975 Physics
- Carl von Ossietzky — 1935 Peace
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas — 1936 Peace
- Carol W. Greider — 2009 Physiology or Medicine
- Charles J. Pedersen — 1987 Chemistry
- David J. Gross — 2004 Physics
- Elinor Ostrom — 2009 Economic Sciences
- J. Robin Warren — 2005 Physiology or Medicine
- James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
- James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
- Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
- Johannes Stark — 1919 Physics
- 15 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Élie Ducommun's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. February 19 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Élie Ducommun's dates come from?
- Birth date 1833-02-19 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 464) + Wikidata CC0 (Q122368) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Élie Ducommun). Birth date 1833-02-19 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).