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Guillaume Henri Dufour

1787 - 1875

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Guillaume Henri Dufour (French pronunciation: [ɡijom ɑ̃ʁi dyfuʁ]; 15 September 1787 – 14 July 1875) was a Swiss military officer, structural engineer and topographer. He served under Napoleon I and held the Swiss office of General four times in his career, firstly in 1847 when he led the Swiss Confederation forces to victory against the Sonderbund. In 1864 Dufour presided over the First Geneva Convention which established the International Red Cross. He was founder and president (1838 to 1865) of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Henri Dufour is the 5,088th most popular politician (down from 2,691st in 2019), the 1,333rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 708th in 2019) and the 390th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 5,088 out of 19,576. Before him are Philip II Philoromaeus, Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, Ma Teng, Chiyou, Georgios Papandreou, and Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg. After him are Vicente Guerrero, Ruzi Ying, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Francis II, Duke of Brittany, Robert III, Count of Flanders, and García Sánchez I of Pamplona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 12. Before him are François Guizot, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, and Franz Xaver Gruber. After him are Edmund Kean, Otto von Kotzebue, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Ludwig Uhland, and Christian Ludwig Brehm. Among people deceased in 1875, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 21. Before him are 12th Dalai Lama, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Moses Hess, Heinrich Schwabe, Amalia of Oldenburg, and Pierre Larousse. After him are Duchenne de Boulogne, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Jacques Paul Migne, Friedrich Albert Lange, Eduard Mörike, and Henry Wilson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 1,333 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Lotze (1817), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Nena (1960), Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704), Wilhelm Busch (1832), and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511). After him are Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Sebastian Münster (1488), Arnold Janssen (1837), Walter Röhrl (1947), and Gudrun Ensslin (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 390. Before him are Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), Max Amann (1891), Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698), Sophia Eleonore of Saxony (1609), and Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704). After him are Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1723), Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (1447), Franz Gürtner (1881), George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484), Walter Christaller (1893), and Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413).

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