Louis Appia
Deceased Person
1818 – 1898
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Who was Louis Appia?
Louis Paul Amédée Appia was a Swiss surgeon with special merit in the area of military medicine. In 1863 he became a member of the Geneva "Committee of Five", which was the precursor to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Six years later he met Clara Barton, an encounter which had significant influence on Clara Barton's subsequent endeavours to found a Red Cross society in the United States and her campaign for an accession of the US to the Geneva Convention of 1864.
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- Born
- Oct 13, 1818
Frankfurt - Nationality
- Switzerland
- Died
- May 1, 1898
Geneva
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on July 23, 2013
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