Jean-François Bergier

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Jean-François Bergier (born December 5, 1931 in Lausanne ; † October 29, 2009 in Blonay ; resident in Lausanne) was a Swiss social and economic historian .

Jean-François Bergier

After studying at the University of Lausanne , he received a diploma in archival science and palaeography from the École nationale des chartes in 1957 . His diploma thesis dealt with Geneva as a trading center between 1480 and 1540. In 1963, Bergier received his doctorate from the University of Geneva , where he then worked until 1969 as a full professor of economic and social history. From 1969 to 1999 he held this position at the Institute for History at ETH Zurich .

From 1997 to December 2001, Jean-François Bergier presided over the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - World War II , known as the Bergier Commission . She had been commissioned by the Federal Council to investigate the controversial relationship between Switzerland and National Socialist Germany . On March 22, 2002, the commission presented its results in the Bergier report .

Jean-François Bergier was an expert on the economic history of Switzerland and the Alpine region.

Fonts

  • Les foires de Genève et l'économie internationale de la Renaissance , Sevpen, Paris 1963, OCLC 490316689 (Dissertation (Thèse) Université de Genève, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, 1963, 519 pages, French ; “Geneva fairs and the international economy of the Renaissance ” ).
  • On the beginnings of capitalism, the example of Geneva (= Relationships: Cologne Lectures and Treatises on Social and Economic History , Volume 20). Research Institute for Social and Economic History at the University of Cologne, 1972 DNB 730532585 .
  • The economic history of Switzerland. From the beginning to the present . Benziger , Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-545-34016-3 , 2nd updated edition, from the French by Trude Fein and Markus Hediger , Benziger, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-545-34089-9
  • The story of salt . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-593-34089-5 .
  • William Tell . Reality and myth . List, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-471-77168-9 ; NA: Römerhof, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-905894-16-5 .
  • Wilhelm Tell - a European? Considerations of a Historian . Benziger, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-545-34108-9 .
  • Switzerland in Europe . Pendo, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-86612-153-9 .
  • Switzerland, National Socialism and the Second World War (= " Bergier Report "; as editor). Pendo, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-86612-039-7 .
  • Jean-François Bergier in conversation with Bertrand Müller and Pietro Boschetti. Living history . NZZ , Zurich 2007 (translated by Eva Moldenhauer ), ISBN 978-3-03823-255-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ École nationale des chartes
personal data
SURNAME Bergier, Jean-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2009
Place of death Blonay , Switzerland