Henri Dunant and the Red Cross

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Dec 20, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 50.

Henri Dunant and the Red Cross

M. Henri Dunant of Geneva, founder of the Red Cross Society, died October 30 at Hilden, Switzerland, aged eighty-two years. His attention was called to the needless suffering in war when he took part in the battle of Solferino in 1859. Soon after, he started a movement which led to the calling of an international conference by the Swiss government in 1863, followed in 1864 by the Geneva Convention. Nine articles were adopted at this convention, which were signed by forty governments, “for the ameliorating of the condition of the wounded in the armies in the field.” In order to carry out the provisions adopted by this convention, the Society of the Red Cross was established through the labors of Mr. Dunant.