Albert Büchi (historian)

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Albert Büchi in 1924

Albert Büchi (born June 1, 1864 in Frauenfeld , † May 14, 1930 in Freiburg im Üechtland ) was a Swiss historian and rector of the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) .

Life

Albert Büchi was the youngest son of the teacher and Thurgau state treasurer Josef Nikolaus Büchi (1820-1883). He graduated from the canton school in his hometown, studied theology at the Episcopal Lyceum Eichstätt in the winter semester of 1884/85 and philology at the University of Basel in the summer semester of 1885 . He spent the rest of his studies exclusively in Germany, namely at the universities of Berlin and Munich . In 1889 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In his dissertation he dealt with Albrecht von Bonstetten . In June / July 1889 he taught as a substitute at the teachers' college in Rorschach . In December 1889 he became a private lecturer in Swiss history at the newly founded Catholic University of Friborg (Switzerland). His leave of absence to study habilitation in Bonn , Cologne and Paris was followed by an uninterrupted teaching position as a full professor of Swiss history at the University of Freiburg from the summer semester 1891 to the summer semester 1930. For a few years he also taught Ancient History there . In 1903 he was one of the founders of the “Genossenschaft des Salesianum ” for the establishment of a theologians' convict in Freiburg. In 1904/05 he was rector of the University of Freiburg.

In 1895 he married Marie (Maria Anna Carolina) Rogg, a daughter of the Thurgau chief judge and church council president Karl Martin Rogg . A daughter of Albert and Marie Büchi-Rogg, Beatrix Büchi (1901–1987), married Emil Franz Josef Müller-Büchi in 1927 , who also taught at the University of Freiburg.

In 1893, Büchi was a co-founder and until 1930 President of the German Historical Research Association of the Canton of Friborg . He founded the Freiburg history papers in 1894 . From 1895 to 1904 he was editor of the monthly roses , the cultural magazine of the Swiss student association , of which he had been a member since 1883. As a member of the central committee of the Swiss Catholic People's Association, he appeared as a speaker at the 1st Swiss Catholic Day in Lucerne in 1903 and in 1907 took over the editing of the journal for Swiss church history . From 1917 he acted as their co-editor. He left behind an extensive correspondence with scholars and a collection of newspaper clippings, mainly on Freiburg university history .

Services

Büchi was an expert on the historiography of the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1914 his edition of the Freiburg Chronicle of the Burgundian Wars by Peter von Molsheim appeared . His main work is the two-volume work on Cardinal Matthäus Schiner , published in 1923/25 . His approximately 150 publications, ranging from journal articles to important monographs, are included in the following bibliographies :

  • Franz Sales Romstöck: Personnel statistics and bibliography of the Episcopal Lyceum in Eichstätt. Ingolstadt 1894, p. 179 f.
  • Karl Emmanuel Lusser: Albert Büchi. At the end of his 60th year of life. In: Zürcher Nachrichten. June 1, 1924 (bibliography attached).
  • Gustav Schürer: Albert Büchi as a historical researcher. In: Freiburg history sheets. Volume 31 (1933) (bibliography attached).
  • Repertory 100 Years of the Month Roses. In: Civitas. 14th year (1958/59), p. 70 f. (Bibliography of Büchi's articles published in the monthly roses).

In addition, the following works by the Eichstätter student Büchi should be mentioned:

  • Evidence of the special difference between organic and inorganic in mineral and plant , winter semester 1884/85, manuscript, in: Eichstätt University Library, Manuscript Department, VA 8
  • (Together with Julius Dedual and Joseph Vock), History of Helvetia Eystettensis (foreign section of the Swiss Student Union since 1864), winter semester 1884/85, manuscript, in: Eichstätt University Library, Manuscript Department, VA 8 (printed in expanded form without naming the author, Eichstätt 1889)

literature

Further references to Büchi in: Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk, "... unforgettable years". Swiss students in Eichstätt (Bavaria) 1842–1912. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2007; ISBN 978-3-89498-174-7 , p. 235.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Tremp: Review: Albert Büchi. Foundation and beginnings of the University of Freiburg ; Freiburg history sheets, vol. 65, pp. 189–191.
  2. ^ History of the Journal for Swiss Church History (University of Friborg) (last accessed on June 6, 2019).

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personal data
SURNAME Büchi, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1930
Place of death Freiburg in Üechtland