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Gustav Moynier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Paul Ruegger
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The following article is a tribute to an outstanding jurist whose name is inalienably linked to the foundation and development of the Red Cross. In fact, Gustave Moynier was President of the ICRC from 1864 to 1910! We express our thanks to the Institute of International Law for allowing us to reproduce this article. (Ed.)

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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 16 , Issue 178 , January 1976 , pp. 3 - 12
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1976

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page 3 note 1 Institut de Droit international, Livre du Centenaire 1873–1973 — Evolution et perspectives du droit international — Editions S. Karger S.A., Basle, 1973; pp. 90–98.Google Scholar

page 3 note 2 Moynier, G., Aperçu de nos travaux, unpublished, 1894 Google Scholar, quoted by Bernard Bouvier in «Gustave Moynier», Geneva, 1918.

page 4 note 1 Moynier, G., Geneva, 1873.Google Scholar

page 4 note 2 Bouvier, B., op. cit., p. 26.Google Scholar

page 5 note 1 This quotation from a statement probably in the archives of the Institute, was taken from the remarkable work by Pierre Boissier, Histoire du Comité international de la Croix Rouge, de Solferino à Hiroshima, published by Plon, p. 476.

page 5 note 2 Concerning the personality of Moynier, refer to the splendid pages by Boissier, Pierre, op. cit., pp. 60–66.Google Scholar

page 5 note 3 Op. cit., p. 62.

page 6 note 1 See the ICRC circular of 22 November 1870 to the central relief committees about the treatment of prisoners of war, “The news we receive convinces us that in order to remedy all this suffering, it is most important to expose it…”

page 6 note 2 Report to the Institute.

page 6 note 3 This diversity was especially remarked upon by Bouvier, Bernard in his Gustave Moynier, 1918.Google Scholar

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page 7 note 2 Brussels, Vromant & Cie.

page 7 note 3 Op. cit., p. 41.

page 8 note 1 See Moynier, Gustave, Mes heures de travail, Geneva, 1907, p. 35 Google Scholar: “I decided to take the initiative for this charitable campaign and assume the role of founder, which at that time belonged to no one else.”

page 8 note 2 François, Alexis, Le Berceau de la Croix Rouge, Geneva, 1918, p. 112.Google Scholar

page 9 note 1 See the excellent biography of Henry Dunant by Ellen Hart.

page 9 note 2 See in particular Huber, Max's La pensée et l'action de la Croix Rouge, Geneva, 1964, p. 131.Google Scholar

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page 10 note 2 Borel, E., L'Organisation internationale de la Croix Rouge, p. 4.Google Scholar

page 10 note 3 Including Bernard Bouvier, op. cit., and Paul des Gouttes, more briefly, in the Bulletin international des Sociétés de la Croix Rouge, 10, 1910.Google Scholar

page 10 note 4 E. Borel, op. cit.

page 10 note 5 In the official records of the Académie, A. Picard, Paris, 1890.Google Scholar

page 11 note 1 Op. cit., p. 7.

page 12 note 1 Op. cit, p. 25.