Anton Leodegar Keller

Anton Leodegar Keller (born September 13, 1673 in Locarno ; † January 26, 1752 in Lucerne ) came from the Lucerne patriciate , was a council member, bailiff and delegate of the diaries .

biography

Anton Leodegar Keller was the son of the land clerk Leodegar Keller and Maria Barbara, nee. Feer from Buttisholz. He was married to Anna Maria Dorothea, geb. Schnyder von Wartensee (1676–1745), daughter of the mayor Johann Irenäus (a great-great-grandson of Ludwig Pfyffer von Altishofen ) and Jakobea Schumacher (1653–1704; granddaughter of the mayor Ludwig Schumacher ), all also from the Lucerne patriciate.

Anton Leodegar and Anna Maria Dorothea Keller-Schnyder had nine children. One daughter, Barbara Benigna (1696–1778), married the Lucerne patrician and later minor councilor Joseph Leodegar Valentin Meyer (1696–1765) in 1719, whose son was the future councilor Joseph Rudolf Valentin Meyer . Another daughter, Maria Elisabetha Ignazia (1714–1779) married the Maréchal de camp and colonel in the Swiss Guard Regiment in French service Karl Leonhard Bachmann von Näfels (1683–1749) and gave birth to Charles Leodegar , Major in the Swiss Guard Regiment in Paris, in 1734 was guillotined at the time of the revolution "for insulting the nation", and in 1740 Niklaus Franz von Bachmann , general in the Swiss Army in 1815 (and colonel in French, Sardinian and Austrian service).

A daughter of Maria Elisabetha Ignazia Bachmann-Keller (and sister of General Niklaus Franz von Bachmann as well as Major Charles Leodegar), Maria Anna Dorothea Bachmann (1738–1772), became the wife of the St. Gallen State Court Master Dr. med. Franz Josef Müller von Friedberg (1725–1803), whose son was the politician, diplomat and statesman Karl von Müller-Friedberg .

A great-granddaughter of Anton Leodegar Keller, Salesia (1770-1807), was the mother of Colonel, Schultheiss and Councilor Josef Schumacher in Uttenberg , who was orphaned at an early age in the house of her brother Schultheiss Franz Xaver Keller (1772-1816) and was educated in a liberal sense was coined. Franz Xaver Keller died on a stormy night on his return from a baptism party in the Uttenberg house under unexplained circumstances in the Reuss, which led to the well-known Keller trial , which received attention far beyond the borders.

A son of Anton Leodegar Keller, Josef Anton Leodegar (1697–1782), was mayor of Lucerne and another, Johann Martin Anton (1703–1766), Colonel in Sardinia-Piedmont and town clerk in Lucerne (see Lucerne Regiment Keller ). Another son, Josef Bernhard, was a captain in the French and Neapolitan service as well as the princely St. Gallic Obervogt zu Rosenberg. Three other sons were clergy.

Services

Keller was a land clerk in Locarno from 1693 to 1712, and from 1694 a member of the Grand Council . From 1712 to 1722 he was town clerk in Lucerne, in 1715 he was envoy in Paris as part of the federal renewal, and from 1722 to 1750 a member of the Lucerne Small Council . In addition, he was Colonel Brigadier of the Lucerne militia, from 1723 to 1725 Vogt zu Ruswil and between 1731 and 1742 he was a member of the daily articles of association.

The cellar, which belonged to the first generation of Lucerne enlightenmentists, played a leading role in the ecclesiastical political disputes of the Udligenswil trade by defending the magisterial procedure as legitimate in a sensational publication and justifying spiritual immunity as a concession by the secular princes to the church.

literature

• Eduard Feer : The Feer family in Lucerne and Aargau 1331-1934. Verlag Sauerländer , Aarau, Volume 2; 1964.
• Roger Liggenstorfer: The Udligenschwiler trade presented from the perspective of the Nunciature reports by Domenico Passionei in the years 1725–1730 in the archive of the State Secretariat of the "Archivo Segreto Vaticano"; Diploma thesis Lucerne; 1990.
• Markus Lischer: Anton Leodegar Keller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 30, 2005 , accessed January 18, 2020 .
• Hans Wicki: Lucerne patriciate in crisis. A contribution to the political history of the Canton of Lucerne in the Age of Enlightenment. In: Der Geschichtsfreund , vol. 145 (1992); Pp. 97-114.

Web links

• Waltraud Hörsch: Udligenswilerhandel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 14, 2014 , accessed January 18, 2020 .