Jean Henry Dunant

Jean Henry Dunant. Red Cross called Father because he is the founder & pioneer the establishment of the Red Cross. Jean Henry Dunant was born in Switzerland on May 8, 1828 (the specified day of the Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies) and dead on October 30, 1910. His father was Jean Jacques Dunant, and his mother was Antoinette Colladon. Jean Henry Dunant was a Swiss businessman and social activist.

Dunant was born in Geneva, Switzerland as the first son of businessman Jean-Jacques Dunant and his wife Antoinette Dunant-Colladon. His family was devoutly Calvinist and had significant influence in Geneva society. His parents are very stressed social values​​, and his father is also actively helping orphans and parolees, while his mother worked with the sick and poor. Dunant grew in the period known as the Reveil religious awakening, and at the age of eighteen he joined the Society of Geneva to give alms. In the following year, along with his friends, he founded the so-called "Thursday Association", which apart from a young band of men who meet for Bible study and helping the poor, and he spent much of his time to people involved in prison and social work visits.

On November 30, 1852, he founded the Geneva chapter of the YMCA and three years later he took part in the Paris meeting devoted to the fostering of international organizations. Earlier in 1849, at age 21, Dunant was forced to leave Calvin College for poor grades, and he began his apprenticeship at the company's Exchange Rates Lullin et Sautter. Having succeeded, he settled as a bank employee.

However, the rights of land and water that are not clearly defined, and the colonial authorities did not particularly cooperative. As a result, Dunant decided to appeal directly to French emperor Napoleon III, who with the army in Lombardy at the time. France had fought alongside Piedmont-Sardinia against Austria, which has occupied much now Italy. Dunant wrote a book full of praise for the praise of Napoleon III with the intention to present to the emperor, and then traveled to Solferino to meet with him personally.

He also managed to obtain the release of Austrian doctor was taken by France. After returning to Geneva in early July, Dunant decided to write a book about his experiences, 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 in the book, he described the battle, and cost, and after that the chaotic circumstances. He also developed the idea that in future there should be a neutral organization to provide care to wounded soldiers distributed to book many leading political and military figures in Europe. Dunant also began to travel through Europe to promote the ideas nya.Bukunya very positively received, and the President of the Geneva Society for Public Welfare, jurist Gustave Moynier, making books and advice topic in the February 9, 1863 meeting of the organization.

In 1863 Henry Dunant shared the four friends realize this idea by setting up an international committee to nantuan the wounded soldiers, now called the International Committee of the Red Cross or the Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent humanitarian agencies are, as a mediator and neutral.