120 Days of Nobels - Why did a historian win the 1902 Nobel Prize for Literature?

The 120 Days of Nobels Booklover's Challenge will read every one of the 120 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature over the next 120 days. By the end of this ultimate literary pilgrimage you will read just a teeny bit of all 120 Nobel Literature Laureates, and be among the best-read people on the planet.
Who won in 1902? Not a poet, not a novelist, not even a philosopher. But a historian won the Nobel Prize in 1902. Why and how did the choice of the scholar and politician relate to the history and politics of Europe at the time?
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