Talk:Henry Dunant

message: This article was largely updated by a translation from the German Wikipedia. Tfine80 00:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  German Wikipedia 

message: According to this excerpt from an German article published in a Swiss Freemasonry magazine, there are no documents to prove that Dunant had any relationship with free masonry. The relevant German statement is:
:...In dieser Nummer bringen wir zudem ein Portrait von Henry Dunant, das ein Basler Bruder verfasst hat. Auch er glaubt, dass Dunant kein Freimaurer war. Wir haben keine Dokumente gefunden, die Henry Dunant eindeutig als Freimaurer bezeichnen.'
: Translation: ... In this edition, we also publish an article about Henry Dunant written by a brother mason from Basle. He too believes that Dunant was not a Free Mason. We have found no documents which name Dunant as a Free Mason.
I've therefore removed the respective category from the article until reliable AND specific information about Dunants connections with free masonry are brought forward here. --Uwe 22:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dunant and Free Masonry

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 00:39, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Went through that list other than Peer Review. Maybe this should be looked at as a GA? --KenWalker | Talk 00:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: The first two paragraphs under "Forgotten Period" have some dates which seem to jump around in the timeline, making for confusing reading.  Using context, I think a couple of them are just typos which, if corrected, would fix the problem.
:(1) 1st paragraph, Aug 17, 1868; should be 1867?
:(2) 2nd paragraph, March 1867; should be 1868?
Since there is no reference given for the information, I can't confirm this, so I'm not making any changes.  Thoughts? LarryJeff (talk) 20:53, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect dates 

message: Can any authoritative source be found to specify whether the proper pronunciation of "Dunant" follows French pronunciation guidelines or not?
i.e. is it properly [dunã] or [dunant]?
Andesco (talk) 15:59, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: The "Samaritan of Europe" began with the aim of being "more effective in Christian charity," "to heat up the lukewarm" believers, and to "convert those who had not met God" (as stated in the Société; by Henry Dunant). The société quotes him rejecting the Catholic Church and the State, but embracing the cause of the Gospel, empathethic with primitive Christianity, as well as talking about the prophecies of the Scriptures. In A memory of Solferino (1872) he calls "gracious" the self-sacrificing Christian devotion.
The two sources that claim that he became an agnostic "in his last years" do not point to any original source, nor have any documented quotation of him on the subject. Neither Oscar Riddle nor the NNDB give any reference to an original source to support their claims, which make their assertion unreliable.  While Riddle's "evolutionary thought" book claims that Dunant became an agnostic, ChristianHistory.net (from Christianity Today, claims that he was a Christian humanitarian to the last. 
If there isn't a really reliable source to clarify this matter with documented writings by him, I seriously call into question the claim that he "became an agnostic", while many other sources say exactly the opposite. Without any factual proof about it, the claim that he became an agnostic is merely a gossip and its diffusion is but a rumor.
--Goose friend (talk) 20:42, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Henry Dunant as Christian TO THE LAST 

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