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Jakob Dubs

1822 - 1879

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Jakob Dubs (26 July 1822 – 13 January 1879) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1861–1872). Along with Gustave Moynier and Guillaume-Henri Dufour, he founded the Swiss Red Cross in July 1866, and served as its first President until 1872. He was elected to the Federal Council on 30 July 1861 and handed over office on 28 May 1872. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob Dubs has received more than 16,451 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jakob Dubs is the 10,152nd most popular politician (up from 11,925th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 368th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jakob Dubs ranks 10,152 out of 19,576. Before him are Valentin Inzko, Ḫattušili II, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, Dioncounda Traoré, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, and Jules Simon. After him are Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Dolley Madison, Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Hassan Al-Turabi, Anna of Moscow, and Dirk IV, Count of Holland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Jakob Dubs ranks 45. Before him are Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Fritz Müller, Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, and Julius von Haast. After him are Jacob Moleschott, Albrecht Ritschl, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Apollonie Sabatier, and Bernhard Hammer. Among people deceased in 1879, Jakob Dubs ranks 30. Before him are Begum Hazrat Mahal, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Karl Koch, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, and Ludwig Reichenbach. After him are William Kingdon Clifford, Sergey Solovyov, Michel Chevalier, Jeanne Jugan, Miguel Grau Seminario, and Joseph Poelaert.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jakob Dubs ranks 282 out of 1,015. Before him are Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891), Numa Droz (1844), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Karl Schenk (1823), Emer de Vattel (1714), and Alexandre Calame (1810). After him are Arthur Cravan (1887), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Kurt Koch (1950), Henri Druey (1799), Carl Lutz (1895), and Heinrich Sutermeister (1910).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Jakob Dubs ranks 44. Before him are Giuseppe Motta (1871), Walter Hauser (1837), Christoph Blocher (1940), Flavio Cotti (1939), Numa Droz (1844), and Karl Schenk (1823). After him are Henri Druey (1799), Carl Lutz (1895), Joseph Deiss (1946), Didier Burkhalter (1960), Paul Grüninger (1891), and Fritz Platten (1883).

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