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Henry Dunant and Rudolf Müller

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

A hundred years after the founding of the Red Cross, several more or less recent biographies, in German, which are based on records, some of them newly discovered, tell us about the men who faithfully assisted Henry Dunant in his more difficult hours. Among the earlier writings about Dunant we find the name of Rudolf Müller, a Stuttgart secondary school teacher, in connection with the few documents available at that time, although they contain no indication of the extent to which Müller's effective activity influenced Dunant's later life.

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Research Article
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1972

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page 550 note 1 The letters have been translated by us. (Ed.).

page 554 note 1 The author here wishes to thank Professor B. Gagnebin very sincerely for allowing him to read several letters preserved in the Dunant records, in the University Library of Geneva.

page 556 note 1 Research in Oslo by Willy Heudtlass, at the time Head of the Press and Radio Service of the German Red Cross in the Federal Republic of Germany, revealed the contents of these letters. In J. Henry Dunant, published by W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, in 1962, Mr. Heudtlass gives a detailed account of the award of the Nobel Prize to Dunant. The author takes this opportunity to express his gratitude to Mr. Heudtlass as he used this book and quoted his assessment of Müller's book and of Dr. Daae's work, and the last sentence of Müller's letter to Björnson.

page 559 note 1 Plate.