Arnold Nuescheler

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Arnold Nüscheler , also Nüscheler-Usteri , (born August 18, 1811 in Zurich ; † October 30, 1897 ibid ) was a Swiss historian , civil servant and politician . Nüscheler was one of the founders of modern art topography in Switzerland .

Life

Arnold was the son of the businessman Felix Nüscheler, his mother Margaretha was a née Vogel. He first studied law at the universities in Heidelberg and Berlin , later camera sciences at the University of Munich and finished his studies at the Heidelberg University. After completing his studies, he went on extensive educational trips to Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and France, among others. The last stop was Paris, where he fell seriously ill and hardly recovered when he returned to Switzerland in 1835.

He was employed as a temporary worker in the Zurich cantonal administration and in 1837 as a calculator, head of the cantonal finance office. His tasks also included examining the collature relationships in the Zurich churches. This required a study of relevant sources and documents, which Nüscheler did very thoroughly with the inspection of all documentary material available to him and which went far beyond the professional framework. From 1846, Nüscheler had the architect Ferdinand Stadler build a country house on Homberg in Rifferswil with a view of Lake Zug , which was completed just a year later. The house has been preserved in its original use. From 1850 to 1863 Nüscheler was senior secretary of the finance department of the Canton of Zurich. Nüscheler had been on the city ​​council of Zurich since 1841 , an office he held until 1868. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Leu & Compagnie corporation from 1848 to 1872 , of which he was president from 1862 to 1871.

Landhaus Nüscheler by Ferdinand Stadler am Homberg in Rifferswil , built between 1846 and 1847

From 1840 Nüscheler was a member of the Antiquarian Society in Zurich , to which he served as actuary for fourteen years from 1842 . He was close friends with the president of the society, the archaeologist Ferdinand Keller . He was also in close personal contact with other members, the theologian and art historian Friedrich Salomon Vögelin , the philologist and numismatist Heinrich Meyer-Ochsner, and the engineer Ludwig Schulthess . In addition, he regularly took part in the negotiations of the General History Research Society of Switzerland and the Historical Association of the Five Places.

His main work: Houses of God in Switzerland, historical and antiquarian research , comprehensive historical statistics of the churches, monasteries and chapels as well as their art and antiquity monuments, appeared from 1864 to 1873 as a separate booklet. It consisted of three departments, divided into the diocese of Chur and the two archdeaconates of the diocese of Constance . He later published the great archdeaconate of Aargau , individually by deanery , in six volumes of the history friend of the journal of the Association of the Five Places and in three volumes of the journal Argovia .

Four publications concerned the bell inscriptions of the five towns, the cantons of Glarus, Schaffhaufen and Appenzell. Nüscheler sponsored a new edition of Vögelin's book Das alten Zürich and supplemented the second volume with the large section A historical walk through the neighboring communities of the city of Zürich , which he also provided with an explanatory map. In the communications of the antiquarian society he published the individual researches The Lazariter houses in Gfenn near Dübendorf and Schlatt, Canton Zurich and The Letzinen of Switzerland . The infirmary in Switzerland appeared in the archive of the general historical research society . Numerous smaller contributions appeared in the Anzeiger für Schweizerische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde , and later in the separate organs Anzeiger für Schweizerische Alterthumskunde and Anzeiger für Schweizerische Geschichte .

1874 awarded him the philosophical faculty of the University of Zurich the honorary doctorate . Thanks to a bequest from him, which expressed his gratitude, the Monumenta Germaniae Historica could be purchased for the library of the historical seminar of Zurich University . In his final years he suffered increasingly from hearing loss and blindness . Arnold Nüscheler died on October 30, 1897, at the age of 86, in his native Zurich. His written estate is in the Aargau State Archives , in the State Archives of the Canton of Zurich and in the Zurich Central Library . Since 1838 he was married to Margaretha Katharina Usteri, daughter of the businessman and hospital carer Hans Jakob Usteri. Both were able to celebrate their golden wedding together in 1888 .

Publications (selection)

  • The Lazariter houses in Gfenn near Dübendorf and Schlatt, Canton Zurich. Zurich 1855.
  • The houses of worship in Switzerland. Historical antiquarian research. Zurich 1864 to 1873. ( Part 1 digitized ); ( Part 2 digitized. )
  • The Letzinen in Switzerland. Zurich 1872.
  • Old Zurich. A hike through Zurich in 1504 with Friedrich Salomon Vögelin , Zurich 1879.
  • The Argau churches in the dean's offices in Hochdorf, Mellingen, Aarau and Willisau, Diocese of Constance. Aarau 1893. ( digitized )

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SURNAME Nüscheler, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nüscheler-Usteri, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1897
Place of death Zurich