Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi was a politician and philosopher from Austria who lived in the early 1900s. He believed that Europe should come together as one nation and advocated for a political and economic union. He was also a strong believer in world peace and understanding between different cultures. He wrote many books and articles about how this union could be created and how it would benefit everyone. He was an early advocate for a European Union, which eventually came to be in the late 1900s.