Abraham Benoit

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Abraham Benoit, portrait attributed to Johann Ludwig Aberli (around 1756)
Governor Abraham Benoit (in a red robe) on the way to Grindelwald (around 1760)
Paper seal Abraham Benoit as governor of Interlaken (1760)

Abraham Benoit (born September 13, 1703 in Bern , † May 18, 1775 in Brandis (Lützelflüh)) was a Swiss magistrate .

Abraham Benoit was born in Bern as the son of the Bern city doctor Albrecht Benoit (1654–1739) and Anna Rosina Ryhiner. In 1735 he married Johanna Barbara Knecht (1705–1768), daughter of the pastor David Knecht and Veronika Tschiffeli . From 1734 Benoit was an accountant in the German Seckelschreiberei (financial administration), secretary of the commission for English funds, from 1745 a member of the Grand Council, a member of the Commerce Council. From 1756 to 1761 he was Governor of Interlaken and from 1770 until his death Governor of Brandis . Abraham Benoit had the house at 28 Münstergasse built in Bern around 1765.

literature

  • Paul Hofer: Art monuments of the canton of Bern. Volume II: The City of Bern. Social houses and residential buildings. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1959, pp. 300-302.
  • Heinrich Türler and Emanuel Jirka Propper: The town house in the canton of Bern, Part II. , 2nd edition, edited by Hermann von Fischer, Zurich 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regimentbuch 1743, p. 52.
  2. ↑ Swiss monthly chronicle 1775, p. 49.
  3. ↑ Regimentsbuch 1755, p. 21.
  4. ↑ Hofer 1959, p. 300; Türler / Propper 1964, p. 47; Scattered stocks in the Bern Burger Library.

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personal data
SURNAME Benoit, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1775
Place of death Lützelflüh