Abstract

C.W.M. van de Velde, a wanderer in the Holy Land Charles William Meredith van de Velde (1818-1898), a naval officer, cartographer and painter, was an adherent of the international evangelical Réveil movement. Leaving the Indies to prevent a (homosexual) scandal (1847), he stayed for some time in South Africa and translated pietist booklets. In 1851 and 1852 he travelled through the Near East, and published a travel journal and a map of Palestine; Le Pays d’Israel was illustrated by hundred watercolors. A friend of Henry Dunant, Van de Velde was a co-founder of the Red Cross, head of the first Red Cross ambulance in the Danish-Prussian War (1866) and of the Dutch Ambulance at Versailles (1870-1871). Unmarried, without permanent residence and employment, Van de Velde wandered around, drawing and painting. He died in a hotel at Menton.

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