Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss Christian, humanitarian, businessman, social...
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The Henry Dunant Museum is a museum in the Swiss town of Heiden, to preserve the memory and legacy of Henry Dunant, the Founder of the Red Cross Movement...
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The Henry Dunant Medal is the highest award of the Red Cross Movement. It is named after Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross Movement. The medal...
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The Henry Dunant Foundation, based in Geneva, awards two prizes each year to individuals who contribute to promoting the ideas of Henry Dunant, the founder...
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International Committee of the Red Cross (category Henry Dunant)
were wounded on the battlefield. In June 1859, the Swiss businessman Henry Dunant travelled to Italy to meet French emperor Napoléon III with the intention...
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Dunant may refer to: Henry Dunant (1828–1910), Swiss businessman, social activist and humanitarian Olivier Dunant, Swiss treasurer Dunant, a submarine...
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depicted also in a 2006 television drama Henry Dunant: Du rouge sur la croix (English title: "Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross"), which tells the story...
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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...
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conflicts is addressed by the 1925 Geneva Protocol. The Swiss businessman Henry Dunant went to visit wounded soldiers after the Battle of Solferino in 1859...
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1901 Nobel Peace Prize (category Henry Dunant)
Peace Prize 1901 nobelprize.org Henry Dunant – Facts nobelprize.org "Henri Dunant". Encyclopedia Britannica. "Henry Dunant (1828-1910)". icrc.org. 6 April...
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States (Virginia Beach) with France (Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez). Named for Henry Dunant, it was announced by Google in 2018 and went live in 2020. In July 2018...
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on the battlefield. A devout Calvinist, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant, traveled to Italy to meet then-French emperor Napoleon III in June 1859...
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Guillaume-Henri Dufour, and he was also a major rival of the founder Henry Dunant. During his record long term of 46 years as president, he did much to...
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world in a way that no one, let alone Dunant, could have foreseen nor truly appreciated at the time. To start, Dunant was able to profoundly stir the emotions...
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A Memory of Solferino (category Henry Dunant)
(French: Un souvenir de Solférino) is a book of the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant published in 1862. It proved decisive in the founding of the International...
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Dar al-Taj Palace (section Description by Henry Dunant)
monuments of the Husainid dynasty. Swiss businessman and humanitarian Henry Dunant (1828–1910), who visited Dar al-Taj upon its completion by Mohammed Bey...
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serving. The Standing Commission is also responsible for giving out the Henry Dunant Medal (the Movement's highest award) and the Red Cross Red Crescent Prize...
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(1873) and the instrument was shown in the Paris Exhibition (1878). Henry Dunant was a proponent, and Wendelin Weißheimer composed Five Sacred Sonnets...
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celebrated on 8 May every year. This date is the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, who was born on 8 May 1828 at Geneva, Switzerland, and died on 30 October...
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Henry Dunant, co-founder of the Red Cross...
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requested to join the "Committee of Five" in order to examine the ideas of Henry Dunant and work towards their possible implementation. He therefore became one...
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were officially established in 1666–67. The founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, spent his last years in Heiden. The former president of the ICRC, Jakob...
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superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering (backup). Dunant, Henry; Dunant, Henry; Dunant, Henry (1986). A Memory of Solferino (Repr ed.). Geneva: International...
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v t e Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize 1901–1925 1901: Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy 1902: Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat 1903: Randal Cremer 1904: Institut...
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Röntgen Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Emil von Behring Sully Prudhomme Henry Dunant; Frédéric Passy — 1902 Hendrik Lorentz; Pieter Zeeman Emil Fischer Ronald...
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in the Swiss village of Heiden, the Henry Dunant Museum was opened to preserve the memory and legacy of Dunant himself. As specified by the Geneva Conventions...
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Nobel Prize for Peace, awarded in 1901, went to the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant. The latest Swiss laureates are Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who received...
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Innocence International Red Cross and Red Crescent: Recipient of the Henry Dunant Medal Codrington, Andrea (29 April 1999). "TALKING DESIGN WITH: Princess...
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care for the wounded and prisoners of war began when relief activist Henry Dunant witnessed the Battle of Solferino in 1859, fought between French-Piedmontese...
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politician Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont (1759–1829), Genevan political writer Henry Dunant (1828–1910), founded the Red Cross, first recipient of Nobel Peace Prize...
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