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Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 .
Diagram by Henry Dunant aiming to explain Revelation and Daniel as prophecies of future events.. Futurism is a Christian eschatological view that interprets portions of the Book of Revelation, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Book of Daniel as future events in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context.
The Red Cross, after the Battle of Gravelotte in 1870 Henry Dunant, author of A Memory of Solferino. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, there were no organized or well-established army nursing systems for casualties, nor safe or protected institutions, to accommodate and treat those who were wounded on the battlefield.
Henri Dunant (1828–1910) Switzerland: Dunant was one of the founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross and he was the initiator of the Geneva Convention. Bernhard Getz (1850–1901) [r] Elias Sunde (1851–1910) [s] 7 professors at the University of Amsterdam 92 members of the Swedish Parliament: 40 members of the Württemberg ...
The idea of creating a truly global movement with an international headquarters was led by Henry Dunant, Secretary of YMCA Geneva, who would later go on to found the International Committee of the Red Cross and win the first Nobel Peace Prize. Dunant successfully convinced YMCA Paris to organise the first YMCA World Conference.
Henry Dunant [b] May 8, 1828 Geneva, Switzerland October 30, 1910 Heiden, Switzerland: 1901: Élie Ducommun [c] February 19, 1833 Geneva, Switzerland December 7, 1906 Bern, Switzerland 1901, 1902, 1903 [4] Shared the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize. [7] [8] Charles Albert Gobat [d] May 21, 1843 Tramelan, Switzerland March 16, 1914 Bern, Switzerland 1901 ...
A Memory of Solferino (French: Un souvenir de Solférino) is a book of the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant published in 1862. [1] It proved decisive in the founding of the International Committee of the Red Cross .
Henry Dunant, co-founder of the Red Cross. The 1864 Geneva Convention was instituted during a critical period in European politics and the military. The American Civil War had been raging elsewhere since 1861, and would ultimately claim between 750,000 and 900,000 lives.