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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume Henri Dufour has received more than 110,449 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Guillaume Henri Dufour is the 6,116th most popular politician (down from 5,231st in 2019), the 1,704th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,477th in 2019) and the 514th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 6,116 out of 15,577. Before him are Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Hinrich Lohse, Jan Syrový, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, and Emperor Ninmyō. After him are Takeda Sōkaku, Philibert Tsiranana, Muhyiddin Yassin, Kurmanjan Datka, García Sánchez II of Pamplona, and Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 14. Before him are Rasmus Rask, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Otto von Kotzebue, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. After him are Edmund Kean, Delphine LaLaurie, James Weddell, Ludwig Uhland, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, and Prince William of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1875, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 27. Before him are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Heinrich Schwabe, Duchenne de Boulogne, Jacques Paul Migne, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, and Eduard Mörike. After him are Henri Labrouste, Friedrich Albert Lange, Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Tristan Corbière, Svetozar Marković, and Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 1,704 out of 6,142. Before him are Conrad Veidt (1893), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1679), Max Koegel (1895), Hinrich Lohse (1896), and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787). After him are Dietmar Hopp (1940), Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759), Walter Röhrl (1947), Michael Stifel (1487), Richenza of Northeim (1087), and Kurt von Tippelskirch (1891).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Guillaume Henri Dufour ranks 514. Before him are Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673), Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1332), Miguel, Duke of Braganza (1853), Jan Tschichold (1902), Max Koegel (1895), and Hinrich Lohse (1896). After him are Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779), Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (1809), Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235), Isidor Straus (1845), and Frederick III, Elector Palatine (1515).

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