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Dr. Louis Paul Appia (* 13 October 1818 in Hanau; "† 1. May 1898 in Geneva) was a surgeon and rendered in particular services in the military medicine. In the year 1863 it became in Geneva member in the committee of the five, from which the international committee of the red cross (IKRK) came out later. it met and drew the attention of 1869 in Switzerland Clara bar clay/tone it to those to Geneva convention and the activity of the international committee. This meeting was for Clara bar clay/tone thereby the impact for their employment for the establishment of the American red cross.
Parents of Louis Appia, Paul Joseph Appia and his Mrs. Caroline Develey, originally originated from the Piemont. Its father, who had studied in Geneva, was however since 1811 an Evangelist minister in Hanau with Frankfurt/Main for the support of the there Huguenot municipality. Louis was third of altogether six children of its parents. It visited the High School in Frankfurt and attained at the age of 18 years in Geneva the university-level graduation. 1838 it began a medicine study in Heidelberg and locked it 1843 with the doctor title. Subsequently, it returned to Frankfurt.
In the year 1847 it traveled to Switzerland, in order to worry in the course of there unrests about its grandparents to Geneva. From Geneva its way continued to lead it to Paris. There and in Frankfurt he helped one year later, wounded with the arguments the February revolution in France and the March revolution in Germany to supply. Since beside the medicine also military customs and traditions had a large fascination for it, its special interest applied from now on for the military medicine and the improvement of the supply of war victims. To the death of its father he came with his nut/mother in the year 1849 to Geneva and practiced here as a surgeon. In the context of its further occupation with military-medical questions it developed among other things equipment for immobilizing a broken arm or leg during the transport of a wounded one. Beyond that he wrote a paper over the surgical supply of war injuries. 1853 he married his Mrs. Anne Caroline leaving and had with it in the course of its marriage of two sons and two daughters.
Its brother George, which was active as a minister in Pinerolo, drew the attention of it 1859 in several letters to the situation of the victims of the Sardini war. Starting from July of the same yearly Louis Appia worked therefore in field hospitals in Turin, Milan, Brescia and Desenzano del Garda. It distributed copies of its paper to Italian and French physicians, organized necessary material and recruited in particular in letters to its Geneva friends donations, in order to help the wounded ones. At the sink Philippe hospital in Milan its invention was for the first time successfully tested in the case of a longer transport of a wounded second lieutenant.
At the beginning of of August it returned to Geneva. Here and supplemented he completed his paper with support of his friend Dr. Maunoir and published her still in the same year as book with the title "Le chirurgien l'ambulance ou quelques pratiques sur les plaies par poor feu" - "the field surgeon or some practical studies over shot wounds". For its medical earnings/services the "medal of the holy Maurice and holy Lazarus" was lent to it. In November 1860 it acquired that Geneva citizen rights and became one year of late chairmen that Geneva medical society.
1863 it was asked to examine in the five-he committee the ideas Henry Dunants and in their implementation participate. It was thus renamed one of the five initial members in the same year created international committees of the auxiliary companies for the wounding care, the 1876 into international committee of the red cross (IKRK). In October 1863 Appia suggested that all freiwilligen aids on the battlegrounds are to carry white armlets as marking. General Dufour, like Appia initial member of the committee, supplemented later this suggestion around a red cross on binds. The red cross on white reason, the reversal of Swiss flag, became thus the symbol of the committee.
During the GermanDanish war, with the conquest of the digging on 18 April 1864, Appia and the Dutch captain Charles Van de Velde were first delegated in history, who supervised the fights and the assistance during a battle with such armlets as neutral observers. While Appia on the Prussian side was in use, Van de Velde was sent to the Danish troops. Appia reported later on its employment among other things:
Two years later, in June 1866, he engaged himself again on request of his brother in the context of the Italian of wars of liberation. Together with two further Freiwilligen they called themselves dei Soccoriti Squadriglia voluntari depression Valli , Corps of the Freiwilligen from the valleys, and supplied wounded in an auxiliary military hospital in Storo, a town in Italy. In the year 1867 he became after separating Henry Dunants from the international committee its secretary and held this office until 1870. Due to the comprehensive activity of the president Gustave Moynier this position meant load nor influence to considerable extent for it however neither. The committee met since this time approx. three to four times per month in its house. In August 1869 it met Clara bar clay/tone, which was at this time because of a longer cure stay in Switzerland. Impressed of their employment during the American civil war he asked it, why the United States had so far refused itself signing the Geneva convention. For Clara bar clay/tone, which had heard so far still nothing of the ideas Henry Dunants, was this the impact to actively use itself after its return to the USA in the year 1873 for the establishment of a national Red Cross Society and the entry of the USA to the Geneva convention.
During the French-German war (1870-1871) Appia was again as delegates of the international committee in the use. In October 1872 it helped the first not-European national Red Cross Society locally in Egypt with the establishment. It supported beyond that Clara of bar clay/tone idea to expand the mission of the Red Cross Societies over the assistance for war-hurt outside also since victims of natural catastrophes and epidemic diseases. In the subsequent years it continued working as a surgeon and continued its studies for the treatment of war injuries. Also he learned languages in the later years of his life still such as Japanese and Chinese, in order to be able to help better with the structure of the national societies developing in these countries. Apart from its further minted employment for the spreading that Geneva convention busy it itself also with considerations to civil liberties and social justice.
Louis Appia remained also in its last Lebensjahren an active member of the IKRK. Thus it participated until 1892 in the conferences of red cross. Its activity was characterised in the high age particularly by many journeys to congresses and conferences, to which it recruited Geneva convention for those and the work of the international committee. It occurred beyond that in its later years also for the fact that the national Red Cross Societies should be active in times of peace beside the assistance with natural catastrophes and epidemic diseases also for the supply of refugees.
It is delivered that it to a large extent spent the last weeks of its life in its dwelling and visitors its red cross armlet from the year 1864 showed. It died in the same year as Charles Van de Velde, its companion in the GermanDanish war.
The Avenue Appia in Geneva and the Dr. - Appia road in Hanau carry today its names.
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