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Completed membership form to be sent: ~ by email to [email protected] Picture of Louis Appia, project of a stretcher on wheels Portrait of Louis Appia by François Poggi, 1859 ~ by post to Société Louis Appia Read more on: http://www.louis-appia.ch Route du Grand Lancy 92 1212 Grand-Lancy Suisse PRECURSOR, ACTOR AND WITNESS PROGRAM 2021 Subject to the health situation. Please check the latest EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS information on our website. ~ : born in where his father was a pastor, student in then Doctor of Medicine at the ~ Tuesday, June 15, 9am: University of Heidelberg; 2021 General Meeting at the Company’s headquarters. Unveiling of the bust of Louis Appia created by David Appia. ~ Switzerland: moves to the in 1849, becomes a citizen of Geneva in 1860; ~ Friday, July 2, 6pm : Retrospective of the first semester, with the Henry Dunant ~ : member of a family originating from the Valdese Society and the Théodore Maunoir Committee. valleys in where his father was born and where At the headquarters of the Companies. his brother George became a pastor; ~ Saturday, August 28, 10am: ~ : family connections in . Inauguration of the joint headquarters of the Henry Dunant Society, the Louis Appia Society and the Théodore Maunoir EARLY COMMITMENT Committee. ~ philanthropist and doctor: expounds principles of International Committee founder of the work Biography: Louis Appia,1818-1898 by Roger Durand. of Red Cross, Geneva in 1863 hygiene in Geneva in public lectures, promotes Slide show on activities 2020-2021. pediatric care, militates against alcoholism; At the headquarters of the Company. “The sign which you are wearing is a ~ emergency physician: champions first aid and the ~ Saturday, October 16, 2pm : sufficient recommendation; we all Colloquium: Louis, Georges, Henry Appia and the Evangelical “gesture that saves”, assists the wounded during the know what it means. You are here for Society, by Samuel Widmer, Valérie Lathion, Roger Durand, Revolution in Paris in 1848; the wellbeing of all“ says Marshal Maria Grazia Baccolo, Olivier Pictet, Louis Appia and Stéphane ~ pioneer of humanitarianism: Louis Appia describes Wrangel to Louis Appia wearing the Hostttler. Chair: Rainer Schlösser. his experience as a field surgeon in the war in the armband which is kept preserved at Launch of the proceedings of the colloquium of October 13, North of Italy in the Ambulance Surgeon in 1859, three 2018: Louis Appia, the first globalist humanitarian. the Museum of the International Red Cross and of the Chapel of the Oratory, 7 rue Tabazan, 1204 Geneva years before Henry Dunant’s , Red Crescent in Geneva. which launches the basic principles of the Red Cross; ~ Saturday, December 4, 3pm : A LONG LASTING COMMITMENT Retrospective of the year 2021 ~ committed Christian: member of the Evangelical At the headquarters of the Company. ~ field surgeon: tests the approach of the Red Cross on Society of Geneva, he puts his faith and convictions ~ Saturday, December 11, 10am, into practice in serving his fellow men; battlefields in 1866 during the battle of Bezzecca Exposure: Louis Appia, first globalist humanitarian ~ co-founder of the Red Cross: in 1863 becomes one (Trentin) where he meets Garibaldi, then in 1870 during In collaboration with the Evangelical Society of Geneva, of the five members of the International Committee the Franco-German war; Chapel of the Oratory, Geneva. founder of the work of the Red Cross (ICRC); he ~ serving the institution: member of the ICRC he becomes the Secretary of the ICRC after Henry attends meetings and participates in the conferences of Some publications: Dunant’s resignation in 1867. the International Red Cross for more than thirty years; Catalogues of the exhibition (French, English, Italian); ~ first delegate of ICRC: in April 1864 with Charles van ambassador and key theoretician of military and civil translation into German of the work of Louis Appia, The de Velde during the Second Schleswig War. On their humanitarian action; wounded in Schleswig during the war of 1864; edition of return they publish a significant report about the ~ promoting the humanitarian message: with Gustave Louis Appia's letters to Samuel Lehmann. feasibility of the Red Cross before the diplomatic Moynier he publishes the standard work War and Coming soon: edition of the correspondence between Conference in August 1864, which led to the Geneva Charity; communicates with , founder of Louis Appia and Clara Barton, proceedings of the Convention. the ; presents the Convention of historical colloquium of Torre Pellice of 2019. Geneva and the action of the ICRC in Cairo.