Arnold Dumelin

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Arnold Dumelin (born July 10, 1844 in Frauenfeld TG ; † April 16, 1905 there ) was a Swiss businessman and consul general in Japan .

Life

Arnold Dumelin came from a long-established Frauenfeld family. In 1866 he reached the port city of Yokohama , the center of the booming international trade in Japan, after a voyage by ship that took him from Marseille via Sumatra , Hong Kong and Shanghai . Here he worked until 1868 as a silk inspector and dealer for the company Thorel, Ziegler & Co. After the separation of the partners, he worked for the company Ziegler & Co. until 1876. In 1877 he joined the eastern Swiss textile company Sieber, Brennwald & Co., where he initially worked as an employee and later as a partner. In 1881 he was appointed Vice Consul and later Consul General of Switzerland in Japan. After his retirement in 1898, he returned to Switzerland and settled again in Frauenfeld. He was married to Catherine Emilie nee Egloff.

estate

The Arnold Dumelin estate, rediscovered in 2015, consisting of 1000 pages with different documents, is in the possession of the Swiss Federal Archives. As part of a research project by the Institute for the History of Art in East Asia at the University of Zurich , it is partially made available online in the Dodis database (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland).

literature

  • Adrian Ritter: Swiss-Japanese Relations. Silk trade and diplomacy. In: UZH News, July 31, 2015. Link

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Hasenfratz, Bürgerbuch der Stadt Frauenfeld, Ms., 1913, (StATG).
personal data
SURNAME Dumelin, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss businessman and consul general in Japan
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenfeld TG
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1905
Place of death Frauenfeld TG