Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 — October 30, 1910) was a Swiss businessman and public figure. Nephew of physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon. The actual initiator of the creation of the international humanitarian organization of the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 1901, together with Frederick Passy, he became the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

In 1859, he witnessed the consequences of the Battle of Solferino — when nine thousand people, sick and wounded, were left to die on the battlefield. Shocked by what he saw, Dunant writes a book "Memories of the Battle of Solferino" and tries to create a Society to help the wounded. Thanks to his efforts, the International Committee of the Red Cross was founded and in 1864 the first Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Land Warfare was adopted. In 1901, together with Frenchman Frederic Passy, he became the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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