Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Henry Dunant

Index Henry Dunant

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. [1]

70 relations: A Memory of Solferino, Allgemeine Allianz für Ordnung und Zivilisation, Athens, Austrian Empire, Basel, Battle of Solferino, Bernard Blier, Bertha von Suttner, Calvinism, Caroline Moorehead, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Christian-Jaque, Cinema of France, Cinema of Switzerland, Collège Calvin, Corfu, Debt, Didier Burkhalter, Dominique Othenin-Girard, Drama (film and television), Dunantist, Dunantspitze, Federal Assembly (Switzerland), First Geneva Convention, Franco-Prussian War, Frédéric Passy, Geneva, Geneva Conventions, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Gustave Moynier, Hans Daae, Hélène Perdrière, Heidelberg University, Heiden, Switzerland, Henry Dunant Medal, Henry Dunant Museum, Historical period drama, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, International Review of the Red Cross, Jean-Louis Barrault, Karlsruhe, Kingdom of Sardinia, Lombardy, Louis Appia, Man to Men, Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), Napoleon III, Nobel Peace Prize, Organized religion, ..., Paranoia, Peter Masters, Pope Leo XIII, Prussia, Réveil, Sicily, Sihlfeld, Solferino, St. Gallen, Stuttgart, Switzerland, Takarazuka Revue, Théodore Maunoir, Thomas Jouannet, Tsar, UNESCO, University of Tübingen, Wiedikon, YMCA, Zürich. Expand index (20 more) »

A Memory of Solferino

A Memory of Solferino (French: Un souvenir de Solférino) is a book of the Swiss humanist Henry Dunant published in 1862.

New!!: Henry Dunant and A Memory of Solferino · See more »

Allgemeine Allianz für Ordnung und Zivilisation

The Weltweiten Allgemeinen Allianz für Ordnung und Zivilisation (Worldwide Common Alliance for Order and Civilization) was an organisation formed during the Franco-German War in 1871 by Henri Dunant together with some friends, among them Frédéric Passy.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Allgemeine Allianz für Ordnung und Zivilisation · See more »

Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Athens · See more »

Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire (Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling Kaisertum Österreich) was a Central European multinational great power from 1804 to 1919, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Austrian Empire · See more »

Basel

Basel (also Basle; Basel; Bâle; Basilea) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Basel · See more »

Battle of Solferino

The Battle of Solferino (referred to in Italy as the Battle of Solferino and San Martino) on 24 June 1859 resulted in the victory of the allied French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II (together known as the Franco-Sardinian Alliance) against the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I. It was the last major battle in world history where all the armies were under the personal command of their monarchs.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Battle of Solferino · See more »

Bernard Blier

Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Bernard Blier · See more »

Bertha von Suttner

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky, Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Bertha von Suttner · See more »

Calvinism

Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Calvinism · See more »

Caroline Moorehead

Caroline Mary Moorehead (born 28 October 1944) is a human rights journalist and biographer.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Caroline Moorehead · See more »

Castiglione delle Stiviere

Castiglione delle Stiviere is a town and comune in the province of Mantua, in Lombardy, Italy, northwest of Mantua by road.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Castiglione delle Stiviere · See more »

Christian-Jaque

Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Christian-Jaque · See more »

Cinema of France

Cinema of France refers to the film industry based in France.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Cinema of France · See more »

Cinema of Switzerland

The film industry based in Switzerland dates to the 1930s.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Cinema of Switzerland · See more »

Collège Calvin

The Collège Calvin, formerly the Collège de Genève, is the oldest public secondary school in Geneva, Switzerland.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Collège Calvin · See more »

Corfu

Corfu or Kerkyra (translit,; translit,; Corcyra; Corfù) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Corfu · See more »

Debt

Debt is when something, usually money, is owed by one party, the borrower or debtor, to a second party, the lender or creditor.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Debt · See more »

Didier Burkhalter

Didier Burkhalter (born 17 April 1960 in Neuchâtel) is a former Swiss politician.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Didier Burkhalter · See more »

Dominique Othenin-Girard

Dominique Othenin-Girard (born 13 February 1958) is a Swiss/French film director, producer and screenwriter.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Dominique Othenin-Girard · See more »

Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Drama (film and television) · See more »

Dunantist

Dunantist is named after Henry Dunant (1828–1910), who inspired the creation of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Dunantist · See more »

Dunantspitze

The Dunantspitze (German for "Peak Dunant", 4,632 m), formerly called Ostspitze ("Eastern Peak"), is a peak of the Monte Rosa Massif in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Dunantspitze · See more »

Federal Assembly (Switzerland)

The Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung, Assemblée fédérale, Assemblea federale, Assamblea federala) is Switzerland's federal legislature.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Federal Assembly (Switzerland) · See more »

First Geneva Convention

The First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, held on 22 August 1864, is the first of four treaties of the Geneva Conventions.

New!!: Henry Dunant and First Geneva Convention · See more »

Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, Guerre franco-allemande), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1871) or in Germany as 70/71, was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Franco-Prussian War · See more »

Frédéric Passy

Frédéric Passy (May 20, 1822 – June 12, 1912) was a French economist and a joint winner (together with Henry Dunant) of the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1901.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy · See more »

Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Geneva · See more »

Geneva Conventions

Original document as PDF in single pages, 1864 The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Geneva Conventions · See more »

Guillaume Henri Dufour

Guillaume Henri Dufour (15 September 1787 – 14 July 1875) was a Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Guillaume Henri Dufour · See more »

Gustave Moynier

Gustave Moynier (September 21, 1826 - August 21, 1910) was a Swiss Jurist who was active in many charitable organizations in Geneva.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Gustave Moynier · See more »

Hans Daae

Hans Daae (15 October 1865 – 10 December 1926) was a Norwegian physician, military officer and sports official.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Hans Daae · See more »

Hélène Perdrière

Hélène Perdrière (born 17 April 1912 in Asnieres-sur-Seine, died 27 August 1992 in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French stage and film actress.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Hélène Perdrière · See more »

Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Heidelberg University · See more »

Heiden, Switzerland

Heiden is a village and a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Heiden, Switzerland · See more »

Henry Dunant Medal

The Henry Dunant Medal is the highest award of the Red Cross Movement.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Henry Dunant Medal · See more »

Henry Dunant Museum

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, who died in Heiden in 1910, after receiving the first-ever Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Henry Dunant Museum · See more »

Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Historical period drama · See more »

International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate.

New!!: Henry Dunant and International Committee of the Red Cross · See more »

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 17 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.

New!!: Henry Dunant and International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement · See more »

International Review of the Red Cross

The International Review of the Red Cross is a quarterly peer-reviewed public health journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

New!!: Henry Dunant and International Review of the Red Cross · See more »

Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910 – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (Baptiste Debureau) in Marcel Carné's film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and part of an international cast in The Longest Day (1962).

New!!: Henry Dunant and Jean-Louis Barrault · See more »

Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe (formerly Carlsruhe) is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near the French-German border.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Karlsruhe · See more »

Kingdom of Sardinia

The Kingdom of SardiniaThe name of the state was originally Latin: Regnum Sardiniae, or Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Kingdom of Sardinia · See more »

Lombardy

Lombardy (Lombardia; Lumbardia, pronounced: (Western Lombard), (Eastern Lombard)) is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Lombardy · See more »

Louis Appia

Louis Paul Amédée Appia (13 October 1818 - 1 May 1898) was a Swiss surgeon with special merit in the area of military medicine.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Louis Appia · See more »

Man to Men

Man to Men (French: D'homme à hommes is a 1948 French-Swiss historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Jean-Louis Barrault, Bernard Blier and Hélène Perdrière.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Man to Men · See more »

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)

Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was a Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III (reigned 1881–1894).

New!!: Henry Dunant and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) · See more »

Napoleon III

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the President of France from 1848 to 1852 and as Napoleon III the Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Napoleon III · See more »

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Nobel Peace Prize · See more »

Organized religion

Organized religion (or organised religion—see spelling differences), also known as institutional religion, is religion in which belief systems and rituals are systematically arranged and formally established.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Organized religion · See more »

Paranoia

Paranoia is an instinct or thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Paranoia · See more »

Peter Masters

Peter Masters has been the Minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle (Spurgeon's) in central London since 1970.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Peter Masters · See more »

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII (Leone; born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 to his death.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Pope Leo XIII · See more »

Prussia

Prussia (Preußen) was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Prussia · See more »

Réveil

The Réveil (French for "revival", "awakening") of 1814 was a revival movement within the Swiss Reformed Church of western Switzerland and some Reformed communities in southeastern France.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Réveil · See more »

Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Sicily · See more »

Sihlfeld

Sihlfeld is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Sihlfeld · See more »

Solferino

Solferino is a small town and comune in the province of Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy, approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Lake Garda.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Solferino · See more »

St. Gallen

St. Gallen or traditionally St Gall, in German sometimes Sankt Gallen (St Gall; Saint-Gall; San Gallo; Son Gagl) is a Swiss town and the capital of the canton of St. Gallen.

New!!: Henry Dunant and St. Gallen · See more »

Stuttgart

Stuttgart (Swabian: italics,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Stuttgart · See more »

Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Switzerland · See more »

Takarazuka Revue

The is a Japanese all-female musical theater troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Takarazuka Revue · See more »

Théodore Maunoir

Dr.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Théodore Maunoir · See more »

Thomas Jouannet

Thomas Jouannet (born 30 September 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss actor.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Thomas Jouannet · See more »

Tsar

Tsar (Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь or цар, цaрь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Tsar · See more »

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

New!!: Henry Dunant and UNESCO · See more »

University of Tübingen

The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a German public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg.

New!!: Henry Dunant and University of Tübingen · See more »

Wiedikon

Wiedikon is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Wiedikon · See more »

YMCA

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), often simply called the Y, is a worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 58 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations.

New!!: Henry Dunant and YMCA · See more »

Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

New!!: Henry Dunant and Zürich · See more »

Redirects here:

Grave of Henry Dunant, Grave of Henry Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross Movement, Henri Dunant, Jean Dunant, Jean H. Dunant, Jean Henri Dunant, Jean Henry Dunant, Jean-Henri Dunant, John Henri Dunant.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dunant

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »