Muertos y heridos y otros textos

The presentation will feature the participation of Dr. Jon Arrizabalaga, while the volume will be presented by Dr. F. Javier Martínez – Antonio. 

The event will be held on Tuesday, 24th April 2018, at 18:00h, in the Meeting Hall of the Residence for Researchers CSIC-Generalitat de Catalunya, calle Hospital 64. Barcelona. Tel. 93.443.27.59, www.residencia-investigadors.es

      Muertos y heridos (1873-1874) [Dead and injured] is a surprising description of the 3^rd Carlist war. Surprising both for the viewpoint from which it is written and for the fact that it was actually published during the course of the war. A story of how neighbours killed and protected each other, at the same time, without really knowing why.

    The author, Nicasio Landa (1830-1891), an Army medic from Pamplona who played an active role in the founding of the International Red Cross and promoting the Cruz Roja in Navarra and Spain, was the same man who proposed – in Geneva, in 1863 – that the international agreements should include immunity for injured soldiers. He later tirelessly defended, avant la lettre, the idea that international humanitarian law should be extended to armed civil conflicts.

But in addition to the main attraction in this anthology of forgotten texts by Nicasio Landa, it also includes others that are no less surprising, ranging from the subtle introduction to the first Spanish edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Extraordinary tales (1858), to his defence of an International Health Convention for foreign trade at the Institute of International Law at Ghent (Belgium, in 1888), in addition to his questioning of the origin of epidemics (1864) and the original version (unpublished since 1870) of Una visión en la niebla: los guerreros euskaldunacs [A vision in the fog: Basque warriors].

     A variety of texts which, together with the introductory study by Guillermo Sánchez and Jon Arrizabalaga, show us the unknown side of Nicasio Landa: the scientist, Catholic, liberal and cosmopolitan; a man with a great love for his homeland, a humanitarian and an euskaltzale.