Abraham Rösselet

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Abraham Rösselet (born January 8, 1770 in Toul (Lorraine), † March 16, 1850 in Bern ) was a Swiss military person.

Live and act

Rösselet was an officer in various European countries. From 1816 to 1831 he was a lieutenant colonel and battalion chief of the new Swiss Guard in Paris . He wrote the souvenirs d'un ancien militaire about the campaigns in which he had participated .

Publications

  • Rudolf von Steiger (ed.): Souvenirs de Abraham Rösselet. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1857. Digitized

literature

  • Ernst Bieri, Auguste Jaeger: Twann then and now: Abraham Rösselet von Twann and his time, 1770–1850. A. Francke, Bern 1935.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Heidi Lüdi: Rösselet, Abraham. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .