SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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 280th most popular social activist, the 254th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 6th most popular Swiss Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gustave Moynier ranks 280 out of 840. Before him are Russell Means, Gabriela Silang, Paul Watson, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Melchora Aquino, and Leymah Gbowee. After him are Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Allan Octavian Hume, Coretta Scott King, Christabel Pankhurst, Mentor of Rhodes, and Jesse Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Gustave Moynier ranks 27. Before him are Henri Mouhot, George Johnstone Stoney, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Walter Bagehot, Stephen Foster, and Giuseppe Zanardelli. After him are William Waddington, Giovanni Battista Donati, Hormuzd Rassam, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, and Charles Barbier de Meynard. Among people deceased in 1910, Gustave Moynier ranks 48. Before him are Osman Hamdi Bey, Reginald Doherty, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Maria Konopnicka, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, and Mary Baker Eddy. After him are Wilhelm Raabe, Hugo Erdmann, Winslow Homer, Michele Rua, Princess Marie of the Netherlands, and Hormuzd Rassam.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gustave Moynier ranks 254 out of 1,015. Before him are Rudolf Wolf (1816), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), Heinz Holliger (1939), and Marcel Koller (1960). After him are Ferdinand Kübler (1919), R. Norris Williams (1891), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Yann Sommer (1988), Abraham Trembley (1710), and Ernst Brenner (1856).

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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 Felix Manz (1498), Hector Hodler (1887), and Bruno Manser (1954).

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