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![[Jean Henri Dunant]](../images/dunant_j.jpg)
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May 8, 1828-October 30, 1910
Founder of the Red Cross, a founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and co-winner of the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901, he also worked to bring about the 1864 Geneva Convention.
In Un Souvenir de Solférino (1862) he proposed the formation in all countries of voluntary relief societies for the prevention and alleviation of suffering in war and peacetime, without distinction of race or creed.
"Henri Dunant first encountered Freemasonry during the Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847 when Freemasons provided rescue ambulances. No doubt influenced by the evidence of Masonic dedication to humankind, Bro. Dunant was raised a Master Mason about 1849." *
Freemason
* Scottish Rite Journal. August 1994, p. 56. Also cited: Denslow; Hamill [unconfirmed]
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