Albert Hauser

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Albert Hauser-Rebsamen (born August 21, 1914 in Wädenswil ; † September 2, 2013 ) was a Swiss historian .

Life

Albert Hauser, son of the manufacturer Emil Hauser, grew up in Wädenswil and studied history at the universities of Zurich and Paris from 1935 to 1938 . After receiving his doctorate in 1938, he worked as an editor and secretary of the Zurich FDP and as a manager of business associations. He received his habilitation at the ETH Zurich in 1956 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1962. From 1965 he was associate professor and from 1970 to 1979 full professor for the history and sociology of agriculture and forestry. He published on Swiss economic , social , cultural , everyday , agricultural and forest history . He was interested in the problems of the rural population in the transition from an agricultural to an industrial society . His books Swiss Economic and Social History (1961) and Peasant Rules (1973) became standard works. In 1992 he was awarded the Upper Rhine Culture Prize.

He was President of the Lake Zurich Landscape Association, a member of the Monument Preservation Commission of the Canton of Zurich and President of the Federal Expert Commission for Mountain Areas. In addition, after training with Paul Bodmer, he also worked as a draftsman and painter. Hauser was married to Trudi Rebsamen from 1941, with whom he had two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The buck war: an uprising of the Zurich rural people in 1804. Dissertation, University of Zurich, 1938.
  • Gottfried Keller: Birth and Decay of the Poetic World. Atlantis, Zurich 1959.
  • Swiss economic and social history. Rentsch, Erlenbach 1961.
  • From eating and drinking in old Zurich: table manners, culinary art and lifestyle from the Middle Ages to modern times. Report House, Zurich 1961.
  • Forests and fields in old Switzerland: contributions to Swiss agricultural and forest history. Artemis, Zurich 1972.
  • Farmer rules: a Swiss collection with explanations. Artemis, Zurich 1973.
  • Cottage gardens in Switzerland: origins, development and importance. Artemis, Zurich 1976.
  • Forest spirits and lumberjacks: the forest in Swiss folk tales. Artemis, Munich 1980.
  • What a life: everyday Swiss life from the 15th to the 18th century. NZZ, Zurich 1983.
  • The new is coming: everyday Swiss life in the 19th century. NZZ, Zurich 1989.
  • Of the Last Things: Death, Burial and Cemeteries in Switzerland 1700–1990. NZZ, Zurich 1994.
  • Country and people on Lake Zurich. Pictures by Albert Hauser. With a suburb of Adolf Reinle . Th. Gut, Stäfa 1994.
  • Grüezi and Adieu: Greetings and manners from the 17th century to the present day. NZZ, Zurich 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Peter Ziegler : "What a life": On the death of the economic historian Albert Hauser. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 7, 2013, p. 20.
  2. ↑ a b Obituary ( memento of October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), ETH Zurich website, accessed on September 8, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauser grape seeds, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Waedenswil
DATE OF DEATH 2. September 2013