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Dunant

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Du·nant  (d-nä, dü-), Jean Henri 1828-1910.
Swiss philanthropist who founded the International Red Cross (1864). He shared the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize.


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Dunant was horrified by the primitive medical services for the wounded and published his thoughts in 1862 in A Memory of Solferino.
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