Henry Dunant - wikipedia Henry Dunant Henry Dunant Native name Henri Dunant Jean - Henri Dunant ( 1828 - 05 - 08 ) 8 May 1828 Geneva, Switzerland 30 October 1910 ( 1910 - 10 - 30 ) ( aged 82 ) Heiden, Switzerland Resting place Friedhof Sihlfeld, Zürich - Wiedikon, Switzerland Nationality Swiss Citizenship Swiss French ( from 1859 ) Occupation Social activist, businessman, writer Known for Founder of the Red Cross Children Awards Nobel Peace Prize ( 1901 ) Henry Dunant ( born Jean - Henri Dunant ; 8 May 1828 -- 30 October 1910 ), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist, the founder of the Red Cross, and the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. The 1864 Geneva Convention was based on Dunant 's ideas. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy, making Dunant the first Swiss Nobel laureate. During a business trip in 1859, Dunant was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern - day Italy. He recorded his memories and experiences in the book A Memory of Solferino which inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in 1863. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Algeria 3 Battle of Solferino 4 Red Cross 5 Forgotten period 6 Return to public memory 7 Nobel Peace Prize 8 Death and legacy 9 See also 10 Fictional adaptation 11 References 11.1 English books 11.2 German books 12 External links Early life and education Henry Dunant in 1855 Dunant was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1828 as the first son of businessman Jean - Jacques Dunant and Antoinette Dunant - Colladon. His family was devoutly Calvinist and had significant influence in Geneva society. His parents stressed the value of social work, and his father was active helping orphans and parolees, while his mother worked with the sick and poor. His father worked in a prison and an orphanage. Dunant grew up during the period of religious awakening known as the Réveil, and at age 18 he joined the Geneva Society for Alms giving. In the following year, together with friends, he founded the so - called `` Thursday Association '', a loose band of young men that met to study the Bible and help the poor, and he spent much of his free time engaged in prison visits and social work. On 30 November 1852, he founded the Geneva chapter of the YMCA and three years later he took part in the Paris meeting devoted to the founding of its international organization. In 1849, at age 21, Dunant was forced to leave the Collège Calvin due to poor grades, and he began an apprenticeship with the money - changing firm Lullin et Sautter. After its successful conclusion, he remained as an employee of the bank. Algeria In 1853, Dunant visited Algeria, Tunisia, and Sicily, on assignment with a company devoted to the `` colonies of Setif '' ( Compagnie genevoise des Colonies de Sétif ). Despite little experience, he successfully fulfilled the assignment. Inspired by the trip, he wrote his first book with the title An Account of the Regency in Tunis ( Notice sur la Régence de Tunis ), published in 1858. In 1856, he created a business to operate in foreign colonies, and, after being granted a land concession by French - occupied Algeria, a corn - growing and trading company called the Financial and Industrial Company of Mons - Djémila Mills ( Société financière et industrielle des Moulins des Mons - Djémila ). However, the land and water rights were not clearly assigned, and the colonial authorities were not especially cooperative. As a result, Dunant decided to appeal directly to French emperor Napoléon III, who was with his army in Lombardy at the time. France was fighting on the side of Piedmont - Sardinia against Austria, who had occupied much of today 's Italy. Napoleon 's headquarters were located in the small city of Solferino. Dunant wrote a flattering book full of praise for Napoleon III with the intention to present it to the emperor, and then traveled to Solferino to meet with him personally. Battle of Solferino Henry Dunant at Solferino Dunant arrived in Solferino on the evening of 24 June 1859, on the same day a battle between the two sides had occurred nearby. Twenty - three thousand wounded, dying and dead remained on the battlefield, and there appeared to be little attempt to provide care. Shocked, Dunant himself took the initiative to organize the civilian population, especially the women and girls, to provide assistance to the injured and sick soldiers. They lacked sufficient materials and supplies, and Dunant himself organized the purchase of needed materials and helped erect makeshift hospitals. He convinced the population to service the wounded without regard to their side in the conflict as per the slogan `` Tutti fratelli '' ( All are brothers ) coined by the women of nearby city Castiglione delle Stiviere. He also succeeded in gaining the release of Austrian doctors captured by the French. Red Cross After returning to Geneva early in July, Dunant decided to write a book about his experiences, which he titled Un Souvenir de Solferino ( A Memory of Solferino ). It was published in 1862 in an edition of 1,600 copies and was printed at Dunant 's own expense. Within the book, he described the battle, its costs, and the chaotic circumstances afterwards. He also developed the idea that in the future a neutral organization should exist to provide care to wounded soldiers. He distributed the book to many leading political and military figures in Europe. Drawing of the five founders of the International Committee. Dunant also began to travel through Europe to promote his ideas. His book was largely positively received, and the President of the Geneva Society for Public Welfare, jurist Gustave Moynier, made the book and its suggestions the topic of the 9 February 1863 meeting of the organization. Dunant 's recommendations were examined and positively assessed by the members. They created a five - person Committee to further pursue the possibility of their implementation and made Dunant one of the members. The others were Moynier, the Swiss army general Henri Dufour, and doctors Louis Appia and Théodore Maunoir. Their first meeting on 17 February 1863 is now considered the founding date of the International Committee of the Red Cross. From early on, Moynier and Dunant had increasing disagreements and conflicts regarding their respective visions and plans. Moynier considered Dunant 's idea to establish neutrality protections for care providers unfeasible and advised Dunant not to insist upon this concept. However, Dunant continued to advocate this position in his travels and conversations with high - ranking political and military figures. This intensified the personal conflict between Moynier, who took a rather pragmatic approach to the project, and Dunant, who was the visionary idealist among the five, and led to efforts by Moynier to attack Dunant and his bid for leadership. In October 1863, 14 states took part in a meeting in Geneva organized by the committee to discuss the improvement of care for wounded soldiers. Dunant himself, however, was only a protocol leader because of Moynier 's efforts to diminish his role. A year later on 22 August 1864, a diplomatic conference organized by the Swiss Parliament led to the signing of the First Geneva Convention by 12 states. Dunant, again, was only in charge of organizing accommodation for the attendees. Forgotten period Dunant 's businesses in Algeria had suffered, partially because of his devotion to his humanistic ideals. In April 1867, the bankruptcy of the financial firm Crédit Genevois led to a scandal involving Dunant. He was forced to declare bankruptcy and was condemned by the Geneva Trade Court on 17 August 1868 for deceptive practices in the bankruptcies. Due to their investments in the firm, his family and many of his friends were also heavily affected by the downfall of the company. The social outcry in Geneva, a city deeply rooted in Calvinist traditions, also led to calls for him to separate himself from the International Committee. On 25 August 1868, he resigned as Secretary and, on 8 September, he was fully removed from the Committee. Moynier, who had become President of the Committee in 1864, played a major role in his expulsion. In February 1868, Dunant 's mother died. Later that year he was also expelled from the YMCA. In March 1867, he left his home city Geneva and would not return for the rest of his life. In the following years, Moynier likely used his influence to attempt to ensure that Dunant would not receive assistance and support from his friends. For example, the gold medal prize of Sciences Morales at the Paris World 's Fair did not go to Dunant as originally planned but to Moynier, Dufour, and Dunant together so that the prize money would only go to the Committee as a whole. Napoléon III 's offer to take over half of Dunant 's debts if Dunant 's friends would secure the other half was also thwarted by Moynier 's efforts. Dunant moved to Paris, where he lived in meager conditions. However, he continued to pursue his humanitarian ideas and plans. During the Franco - Prussian War ( 1870 -- 1871 ), he founded the Common Relief Society ( Allgemeine Fürsorgegesellschaft ) and soon after the Common Alliance for Order and Civilization ( Allgemeine Allianz für Ordnung und Zivilisation ). He argued for disarmament negotiations and for the erection of an international court to mediate international conflicts. Later he worked for the creation of a world library, an idea which had echoes in future projects such as UNESCO. In his continued pursuit and advocacy of his ideas, he further neglected his personal situation and income, falling further in debt and being shunned by his acquaintances. Despite being appointed an honorary member of the national Red Cross societies of Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Prussia and Spain, he was nearly forgotten in the official discourse of the Red Cross Movement, even as it was rapidly expanding to new countries. He lived in poverty, moving to various places between 1874 and 1886, including Stuttgart, Rome, Corfu, Basel, and Karlsruhe. In Stuttgart he met the Tübingen University student Rudolf Müller with whom he would have a close friendship. In 1881, together with friends from Stuttgart, he went to the small Swiss resort village Heiden for the first time. In 1887 while living in London, he began to receive some monthly financial support from some distant family members. This enabled him to live a somewhat more secure existence, and he moved to Heiden in July. He spent the rest of his life there, and after 30 April 1892 he lived in a hospital and nursing home led by Dr. Hermann Altherr. In Heiden, he met the young teacher Wilhelm Sonderegger and his wife Susanna ; they encouraged him to record his life experiences. Sonderegger 's wife founded a branch of the Red Cross in Heiden and in 1890 Dunant became its honorary president. With Sonderegger, Dunant hoped to further promote his ideas, including publishing a new edition of his book. However, their friendship later was strained by Dunant 's unjustified accusations that Sonderegger, with Moynier in Geneva, was somehow conspiring against Dunant. Sonderegger died in 1904 at the age of only forty - two. Despite their strained relationship, Dunant was deeply moved by the unexpected death. Wilhelm and Susanna Sonderegger 's admiration for Dunant, felt by both even after Dunant 's allegations, was passed on to their children. In 1935, their son René published a compilation of letters from Dunant to his father. Return to public Memory In September 1895, Georg Baumberger, the chief editor of the St. Gall newspaper Die Ostschweiz, wrote an article about the Red Cross founder, whom he had met and conversed with during a walk in Heiden a month earlier. The article entitled `` Henri Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross '', appeared in the German Illustrated Magazine Über Land und Meer, and the article was soon reprinted in other publications throughout Europe. The article struck a chord, and he received renewed attention and support. He received the Swiss Binet - Fendt Prize and a note from Pope Leo XIII. Because of support from Russian tsarist widow Maria Feodorovna and other donations, his financial situation improved remarkably. In 1897, Rudolf Müller, who was now working as a teacher in Stuttgart, wrote a book about the origins of the Red Cross, altering the official history to stress Dunant 's role. The book also contained the text of A Memory of Solferino. Dunant began an exchange of correspondence with Bertha von Suttner and wrote numerous articles and writings. He was especially active in writing about women 's rights, and in 1897 facilitated the founding of a `` Green Cross '' women 's organization whose only section was briefly active in Brussels. Nobel Peace prize Dunant in 1901 In 1901, Dunant was awarded the first - ever Nobel Peace Prize for his role in founding the International Red Cross Movement and initiating the Geneva Convention. By public and private means, Müller, and later Norwegian military physician Hans Daae ( who had received a copy of Müller 's book ), advocated Dunant 's case to the Nobel committee over the course of 4 years. The award was jointly given to French pacifist Frédéric Passy, founder of the Peace League and active with Dunant in the Alliance for Order and Civilization. The official congratulations which he received from the International Committee finally represented the rehabilitation of Dunant 's reputation : `` There is no man who more deserves this honour, for it was you, forty years ago, who set on foot the international organization for the relief of the wounded on the battlefield. Without you, the Red Cross, the supreme humanitarian achievement of the nineteenth century would probably have never been undertaken. '' Moynier and the International Committee as a whole had also been nominated for the prize. Although Dunant was supported by a broad spectrum in the selection process, he was still a controversial candidate. Some argued that the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention had made war more attractive and imaginable by eliminating some of its suffering. Therefore, Müller, in a letter to the committee, argued that the prize should be divided between Dunant and Passy, who for some time in the debate had been the leading candidate to be the sole recipient of the prize. Müller also suggested that if a prize were to be warranted for Dunant, it should be given immediately because of his advanced age and ill health. By dividing the prize between Passy, a pacifist, and Dunant, a humanitarian, the Nobel Committee set a precedent for the conditions of the Nobel Peace Prize selection which would have significant consequences in later years. A section of Nobel 's will had indicated that the prize should go to an individual who had worked to reduce or eliminate standing armies, or directly to promote peace conferences, which made Passy a natural choice for his peace work. On the other hand, the arguably distinct bestowal for humanitarian effort alone was seen by some as a wide interpretation of Nobel 's will. However, another part of Nobel 's testament marked the prize for the individual who had best enhanced the `` brotherhood of people, '' which could be interpreted more generally as seeing humanitarian work like Dunant 's as connected to peacemaking as well. Many recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize in later years can be assigned to either of these two categories first roughly established by the Nobel committee 's decision in 1901. Hans Daae succeeded in placing Dunant 's part of the prize money, 104,000 Swiss Francs, in a Norwegian Bank and preventing access by his creditors. Dunant himself never spent any of the money during his lifetime, continuing to live simply and reserving it for bequests in his will to those who cared for him and charitable causes. Death and legacy Grave of Henry Dunant. Henry Dunant Monument in Wagga Wagga, Australia Among several other awards in the following years, in 1903 Dunant was given an honorary doctorate by the medical faculty of the University of Heidelberg. He lived in the nursing home in Heiden until his death. In the final years of his life, he suffered from depression and paranoia about pursuit by his creditors and Moynier. There were even days when Dunant insisted that the cook of the nursing home first taste his food before his eyes to protect him against possible poisoning. In his final years, he spurned and attacked Calvinism and organized religion generally. He was said to be agnostic. According to his nurses, the final act of his life was to send a copy of Müller 's book to the Italian queen with a personal dedication. He died on 30 October 1910, and his final words were `` Where has humanity gone ? '' He outlived his nemesis Moynier by just two months. Despite the ICRC 's congratulations at the bestowal of the Nobel prize, the two rivals never reached a reconciliation. According to his wishes, he was buried without ceremony in the Sihlfeld Cemetery in Zurich. In his will, he donated funds to secure a `` free bed '' in the Heiden nursing home always to be available for a poor citizen of the region and deeded some money to friends and charitable organizations in Norway and Switzerland. The remaining funds went to his creditors partially relieving his debt ; his inability to fully erase his debts was a major burden to him until his death. His birthday, 8 May, is celebrated as the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. The former nursing home in Heiden now houses the Henry Dunant Museum. In Geneva and other places there are numerous streets, squares, and schools named after him. The Henry Dunant Medal, awarded every two years by the standing commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is its highest decoration. His life is represented, with some fictional elements, in the film D'homme à hommes ( 1948 ), starring Jean - Louis Barrault, and the period of his life when the Red Cross was founded in the international film coproduction Henry Dunant : Red on the Cross ( 2006 ). In 2010 the Takarazuka Revue staged a musical based on his time in Solferino and the founding of the Red Cross entitled Dawn at Solferino, or Where has Humanity Gone ?. In honour of Henry Dunant, the second highest peak in Switzerland was renamed to Dunantspitze ( Peak Dunant ) by Swiss Federal President Didier Burkhalter on 6 October 2014. Henry Dunant Hospital is a general hospital in Athens, Greece. See also International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Dunantist Fictional adaptation Henry Dunant : Red on the Cross ( fr. Henry Dunant : Rouge sur la Croix ), 2006. French / Swiss / Austria co-production starring Thomas Jouannet written by Claude - Michel Rome directed by Dominique Othenin - Girard. Man to Men ( fr. D'homme à hommes ) a 1948 French - Swiss historical drama film directed by Christian - Jaque and starring Jean - Louis Barrault, Bernard Blier and Hélène Perdrière. References Jump up ^ Durand, Roger : `` Un Français de coeur, passion d'Henry Dunant pour sa nouvelle patrie '' in Durand Roger / Dunant Christiane : `` Henry Dunant citoyen de Culoz, français de cœur ''. Société Henry Dunant and Ville de Culoz, 2003, p. 159 Jump up ^ Jean de Senarclens : Henry Dunant in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 24 novembre 2014... Jump up ^ `` Mairie de Culoz - Personnages célèbres ''. www.culoz.fr. Retrieved 21 March 2018. ^ Jump up to : Abrams, Irwin ( 2001 ). The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates : An Illustrated Biographical History. Science History Publications / USA. p. 48. ISBN 0 - 8813 - 5388 - 4. Jump up ^ Heudtlass, Willy ( June 1964 ). `` J. Henry Dunant and the events leading to the award of the first Nobel Peace Prize '' ( PDF ). International Review of the Red Cross. 4 ( 39 ) : 287 --. Jump up ^ Oscar Riddle ( 2007 ). The Unleashing of Evolutionary Thought. Vantage Press, Inc. p. 343. ISBN 9780533155972. The first Nobel Peace Prize went, in 1901, to Henri Dunant. Dunant was the founder of the Red Cross, but he could not become its first elective head -- so it is widely believed -- because of his agnostic views. Jump up ^ `` National Map 1 : 25 000 '' ( Map ). Dunantspitze. 1 : 25'000. `` National Map 1 : 25 000 : 247 sheets and 17 composites ''. Bern, Switzerland : Swiss Federal Office of Topography, swisstopo. 23 July 2014. § `` 1348 Zermatt ''. ISBN 978 - 3 - 302 - 01348 - 0. Retrieved 2014 - 10 - 07. Jump up ^ Didier Burkhalter ( 6 October 2014 ). `` Der Schönste Berg der Schweiz '' ( The most beautiful mountain of Switzerland ) ( presidential speech ) ( in German ). Bern, Switzerland : Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2014 - 10 - 07. Jump up ^ `` Ερρίκος Ντυνάν Hospital Center Ερρίκος Ντυνάν ''. www.dunant.gr. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 27. Jump up ^ Dominique Othenin - Girard ( director ) ( 2006 ). `` Henry Dunant, du rouge sur la croix '' ( movie ) ( in French ). crois - rouge français. Retrieved 2015 - 07 - 11. English books Dunant, Henri ( 1986 ) ( originally published 1862 ), A Memory of Solferino ( in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese ), Geneva, Switzerland : International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, ISBN 2 - 88145 - 006 - 7 online Boissier, Pierre ( 1985 ), History of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( in English, French, and Spanish ), I : From Solferino to Tsushima ( 2nd ed. ), Geneva, Switzerland : International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, ISBN 2 - 88044 - 012 - 2, retrieved 2015 - 07 - 11 Boissier, Pierre ( 1974 ), Henri Dunant ( PDF ) ( in English, German, French, and Spanish ), Geneva, Switzerland : International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, ISBN 2 - 88044 - 012 - 2, retrieved 2015 - 07 - 11 Moorehead, Caroline ( 1998 ), Dunant 's dream : War, Switzerland and the history of the Red Cross ( hardcover ed. ), London : HarperCollins, ISBN 0 - 00 - 255141 - 1 Masters, Peter ( 2008 ), `` chapter 8 -- The Man Behind the Red Cross '', Men of Destiny ( paperback ed. ), London : Wakeman Trust, ISBN 1 - 870855 - 55 - 8 German books Hasler, Eveline ( 2010 ), Der Zeitreisende. Die Geschichte eines Menschen, dessen Visionen weit über seine Zeit hinausgingen ( Roman ) ( in German ) ( 4. ed. ), Germany : dtv, ISBN 978 - 3 - 423 - 13073 - 8, archived from the original on 12 July 2015 Gumpert, Martin ( 1987 ), Dunant. Der Roman des Roten Kreuzes ( in German ), Frankfurt, Germany : Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, ISBN 3 - 596 - 25261 - X Heudtlass, Willy ; Walter Gruber ( 1985 ), Jean Henry Dunant. Gründer des Roten Kreuzes, Urheber der Genfer Konvention ( in German ) ( 4. ed. ), Stuttgart, Germany : Verlag Kohlhammer, ISBN 3 - 17 - 008670 - 7 External links Wikisource has original works written by or about : Henry Dunant Wikiquote has quotations related to : Henry Dunant Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henri Dunant. Founding and early years of the ICRC Henry Dunant Museum in Heiden ( AR, Switzerland ) ( in French ) Société Henry Dunant ( in French ) Biographies and Bibliography of Henry Dunant Nobel website biography of Henri Dunant Red Cross Movement and Nobel Prizes Complete text of `` A Memory of Solferino '' ( in French ) ' Un Souvenir de Solférino ' -- at Athena Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize 1901 -- 1925 1901 Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy 1902 Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat 1903 Randal Cremer 1904 Institut de Droit International 1905 Bertha von Suttner 1906 Theodore Roosevelt 1907 Ernesto Moneta / Louis Renault 1908 Klas Arnoldson / Fredrik Bajer 1909 A.M.F. Beernaert / Paul Estournelles de Constant 1910 International Peace Bureau 1911 Tobias Asser / Alfred Fried 1912 Elihu Root 1913 Henri La Fontaine 1914 1915 1916 1917 International Committee of the Red Cross 1918 1919 Woodrow Wilson 1920 Léon Bourgeois 1921 Hjalmar Branting / Christian Lange 1922 Fridtjof Nansen 1923 1924 1925 Austen Chamberlain / Charles Dawes 1926 -- 1950 1926 Aristide Briand / Gustav Stresemann 1927 Ferdinand Buisson / Ludwig Quidde 1928 1929 Frank B. Kellogg 1930 Nathan Söderblom 1931 Jane Addams / Nicholas Butler 1932 1933 Norman Angell 1934 Arthur Henderson 1935 Carl von Ossietzky 1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1937 Robert Cecil 1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 International Committee of the Red Cross 1945 Cordell Hull 1946 Emily Balch / John Mott 1947 Friends Service Council / American Friends Service Committee 1948 1949 John Boyd Orr 1950 Ralph Bunche 1951 -- 1975 1951 Léon Jouhaux 1952 Albert Schweitzer 1953 George Marshall 1954 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1955 1956 1957 Lester B. Pearson 1958 Georges Pire 1959 Philip Noel - Baker 1960 Albert Lutuli 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld 1962 Linus Pauling 1963 International Committee of the Red Cross / League of Red Cross Societies 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. 1965 UNICEF 1966 1967 1968 René Cassin 1969 International Labour Organization 1970 Norman Borlaug 1971 Willy Brandt 1972 1973 Lê Đức Thọ ( declined award ) / Henry Kissinger 1974 Seán MacBride / Eisaku Satō 1975 Andrei Sakharov 1976 -- 2000 1976 Betty Williams / Mairead Corrigan 1977 Amnesty International 1978 Anwar Sadat / Menachem Begin 1979 Mother Teresa 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 1981 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1982 Alva Myrdal / Alfonso García Robles 1983 Lech Wałęsa 1984 Desmond Tutu 1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 1986 Elie Wiesel 1987 Óscar Arias 1988 UN Peacekeeping Forces 1989 Tenzin Gyatso ( 14th Dalai Lama ) 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi 1992 Rigoberta Menchú 1993 Nelson Mandela / F.W. de Klerk 1994 Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin / Yasser Arafat 1995 Pugwash Conferences / Joseph Rotblat 1996 Carlos Belo / José Ramos - Horta 1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams 1998 John Hume / David Trimble 1999 Médecins Sans Frontières 2000 Kim Dae - jung 2001 -- present 2001 United Nations / Kofi Annan 2002 Jimmy Carter 2003 Shirin Ebadi 2004 Wangari Maathai 2005 International Atomic Energy Agency / Mohamed ElBaradei 2006 Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus 2007 Al Gore / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2008 Martti Ahtisaari 2009 Barack Obama 2010 Liu Xiaobo 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Leymah Gbowee / Tawakkol Karman 2012 European Union 2013 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons 2014 Kailash Satyarthi / Malala Yousafzai 2015 Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet 2016 Juan Manuel Santos 2017 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons BIBSYS : 90318420 BNE : XX897301 BNF : cb13163063m ( data ) GND : 118528114 HDS : 19082 ISNI : 0000 0001 2095 9428 LCCN : n83133886 NARA : 10569314 NDL : 00438382 NKC : jn20000700449 NLA : 40192483 SELIBR : 184161 SNAC : w63v253j SUDOC : 027287491 ULAN : 500354992 VIAF : 37053483 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Dunant&oldid=839750558 '' Categories : Henry Dunant YMCA leaders Nobel Peace Prize laureates Swiss Nobel laureates People associated with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Swiss memoirists Swiss businesspeople Swiss agnostics People from Geneva 1828 births 1910 deaths Swiss humanitarians Swiss philanthropists Swiss Christians Swiss expatriates in Algeria Hidden categories : CS1 German - language sources ( de ) CS1 French - language sources ( fr ) Use dmy dates from August 2014 Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2017 CS1 Spanish - language sources ( es ) CS1 Arabic - language sources ( ar ) CS1 Chinese - language sources ( zh ) Articles with French - language external links AC with 16 elements Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikiquote Wikisource Alemannisch Azərbaycanca বাংলা Bân - lâm - gú Беларуская Беларуская ( тарашкевіца ) ‎ Български Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Estremeñu Euskara فارسی Français Gaeilge Galego 한국어 Հայերեն हिन्दी Hrvatski Ido Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Basa Jawa ქართული Kiswahili Kurdî Latina Latviešu Lëtzebuergesch Lietuvių Limburgs Lumbaart Magyar मैथिली Македонски മലയാളം Bahasa Melayu Монгол Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk Occitan ਪੰਜਾਬੀ پنجابی Polski Português Română Русский Scots Sicilianu Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Српски / srpski Suomi Svenska Tagalog தமிழ் Татарча / tatarça ไทย Türkçe Türkmençe Українська اردو Tiếng Việt Winaray Yorùbá 粵語 中文 69 more Edit links This page was last edited on 5 May 2018, at 12 : 03. 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Question: who founded the red cross to relieve the suffering of the war wounded
Answer: Henry Dunant