# Henry Dunant

> He walked onto a battlefield still warm with bodies, organized strangers into an impromptu relief corps, then went home and wrote the book that invented the Red Cross. The first Nobel Peace Prize went to a man who'd spent decades broke and forgotten.

*Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross (1828-1910)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Founder ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524))
- **Category:** Founders
- **Country:** Switzerland
- **Born:** 1828-05-08
- **Died:** 1910-10-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Geneva on 8 May 1828 to a devout Calvinist family, Dunant was a businessman with interests in French Algeria and Tunisia when a detour changed everything. In 1859, traveling to petition Napoleon III, he arrived at Solferino in northern Italy just after battle and found thousands of wounded soldiers abandoned without care. Horrified, he rallied locals to tend the dying regardless of side. Back in Geneva he published A Memory of Solferino, calling for a neutral organization to care for the war-wounded. In February 1863 he joined a five-person committee that became the International Committee of the Red Cross; a year later he helped convene the diplomatic conference that produced the First Geneva Convention. Then in 1867 a business scandal bankrupted him, and the Committee expelled him. He spent the next decades poor and invisible, drifting across Europe until settling in the Swiss village of Heiden. A journalist rediscovered him in 1895, and in 1901 he shared the first Nobel Peace Prize with French pacifist Frédéric Passy. He died in Heiden on 30 October 1910.

## Fame
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## Platforms
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## Topics
#Activists, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Activism, #Switzerland, #Europe, #19th Century

## Timeline
- **1910** - Died
- **1901** - Nobel Peace Prize
- **1865** - Friedrich Order
- **1865** - Order of Christ
- **1865** - Order of the Crown
- **1864** - Albert Order
- **1864** - Order of Ludwig I
- **1864** - Royal Order of Vasa
- **1860** - Order of Glory
- **1828** - Born

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