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Gustave Moynier

1826 - 1910

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Gustave Moynier (21 September 1826 – 21 August 1910) was a Swiss jurist who was active in many charitable organizations in Geneva. He was a co-founder of the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which became the International Committee of the Red Cross after 1876. In 1864, he took over the position of president of the committee from Guillaume-Henri Dufour, and he was also a major rival of the founder Henry Dunant. During his record long term of 46 years as president, he did much to support the development of the committee in the first decades after its creation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Moynier is the 292nd most popular social activist (down from 280th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 254th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gustave Moynier ranks 292 out of 840. Before him are Simon bar Giora, George Lincoln Rockwell, Hannie Schaft, Amelia Bloomer, Rattanbai Jinnah, and Abdallah ibn Yasin. After him are Zhang Guotao, Mary Dyer, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Hector Hodler, Cassivellaunus, and Yuri Levitan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Gustave Moynier ranks 31. Before him are Julia Grant, Giovanni Battista Donati, George B. McClellan, Stephen Foster, Giuseppe Zanardelli, and Walter Bagehot. After him are Rahime Perestu Sultan, Frederic Edwin Church, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Hormuzd Rassam, Richard Christopher Carrington, and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann. Among people deceased in 1910, Gustave Moynier ranks 54. Before him are Wilhelm Raabe, Mary Baker Eddy, Reginald Doherty, Emmanuel Frémiet, Luo Yixiu, and Winslow Homer. After him are Princess Marie of the Netherlands, Hormuzd Rassam, Laza Kostić, Edouard Van Beneden, Paolo Mantegazza, and William Graham Sumner.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gustave Moynier ranks 278 out of 1,015. Before him are Abraham Trembley (1710), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Leopold Kielholz (1911), Alexandre Calame (1810), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), and Giovanni Giacometti (1868). After him are Gilberto Agustoni (1922), Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), Karl Röderer (1868), Alphonse Matejka (1902), Alexander Schallenberg (1969), and Adolphe Appia (1862).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Switzerland

Among social activists born in Switzerland, Gustave Moynier ranks 6. Before him are Henry Dunant (1828), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Élie Ducommun (1833), and Jean Ziegler (1934). After him are Hector Hodler (1887), Felix Manz (1498), and Bruno Manser (1954).

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