Bartholome Honnerlag

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Bartholome Honnerlag-Zellweger, 1765

Bartholome Honnerlag (born August 19, 1740 in Trogen ; † August 22, 1815 ibid), was a Swiss doctor who belonged to the fourth generation of the Honnerlag family, who lived in Trogen . In addition to his successful medical practice in Trogen, he was politically active, both as mayor of Trogen and as governor and governor.

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Private life

Bartholome Honnerlag was born as the son of Bartholome Honnerlag (1700–1774), also a doctor, and Maria Elisabeth Honnerlag-Walser (1705–1770). His siblings include Sebastian (1735–1801), Johann Georg and Johann Conrad Honnerlag (1738–1818), who, contrary to family tradition, did not deal with medicine but trained as merchants. In 1761 Bartholome Honnerlag's father had the «Sonnenhof» built by the master builder Johannes Grubenmann . It was intended as a house and a doctor's practice for Bartholome Honnerlag, who moved into the Sonnenhof in 1764.

Sonnenhof Trogen

A year later, Honnerlag married 19-year-old Rosina Zellweger (1746–1828), daughter of Conrad Zellweger (1694–1771), family members of the patrician family Zellweger . At the same time Rosina's sister was married to Sebastian (1735-1801), the brother of Bartholome Honnerlag. Rosina gave birth to Bartholome three sons and two daughters. Among them was Hans Conrad Honnerlag (1746–1839), the last male bearer of the family's name.

Rosina Honnerlag-Zellweger

Rosina and Bartholome ran the Sonnenhof as an open house. Both were musical, Bartholome played the violin, Rosina the organ. Little is known about her private life; it remains to be seen how much Honnerlag included his wife in his everyday professional life and how their marriage developed over time. A few letters from Rosina to the pastor and pastor Johann Caspar Lavater indicate that she suffered from depressive disorders. Honnerlag, on the other hand, remained objective in his letters to Johann Caspar Hirzel and did not mention either his children or his wife.

Professional career

Honnerlag completed his medical studies in Zurich, Basel, Strasbourg and Paris. In 1763 he began his career as Dr. med. in Basel. A year later he moved into his medical practice in the newly built Sonnenhof in Trogen. Before him, Laurenz Zellweger had worked as a doctor in Trogen. Bartholome opened a private clinic for the mentally ill in his home, each with five to six patients.

The first psychiatric clinic in the canton, next to the Lutzschen Anstalt in Rehetobel , soon gained a good reputation. Patients also included State Ensign Johannes Zellweger-Hirzel (1730–1802) and Landammann Johann Ulrich Schiess (1711–1775). Honnerlag worked after the four juices apprenticeship . This sees illness as the cause of an imbalance of the four body fluids blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile.

During his activity as a doctor, Honnerlag exchanged a total of thirteen letters with the Zurich city doctor Johann Caspar Hirzel. The decisive factor for this exchange of scholars in 1766 was a patient named Hirzel who was staying at the Trogen private clinic and whose state of health was discussed in the letters.

Political career

Honnerlag held the office of mayor of Trogen from 1784. Two years later he became governor of Ausserrhoder, and in 1794 he changed his post and became governor. He resigned from this office in protest of the unrest and revolutionary actions of the 'French Party', which were supporters of the revolution.

literature

  • Viktor Eugen Zellweger: The Honnerlag family in Trogen. 1671-1839. In: Appenzellian yearbooks . Vol. 58, 1930, pp. 1-19. ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-272158 ).
  • Thomas Fuchs: Bartholome Honnerlag. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 15, 2006 .
  • Cantonal Library Appenzell Ausserrhoden (Ed.): A portrait gallery of the Honnerlag family from the 17th and 18th centuries. Trogen 2007.
  • Eugen Steinmann: The art monuments of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. Vol. 2: The Mittelland district. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1980, ISBN 3-7643-1174-6 , pp. 150-153.
  • Heidi Eisenhut: 'Diker Nebel envelops my mind again'. Rosina Honnerlag-Zellweger to Johann Caspar Lavater. In: Appenzellian yearbooks . Vol. 135, 2007, pp. 37-55. ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-283405 ).

Web links

Commons : Honnerlag (family)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cantonal Library Appenzell Ausserrhoden (ed.): A portrait gallery of the Honnerlag family from the 17th and 18th centuries. Trogen 2007, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Cantonal Library Appenzell Ausserrhoden (ed.): A portrait gallery of the Honnerlag family from the 17th and 18th centuries. Trogen 2007, pp. 24-25.
  3. ↑ Cantonal Library Appenzell Ausserrhoden, (Ed.): A portrait gallery of the Honnerlag family from the 17th and 18th centuries. Trogen 2007, p. 6.
  4. ↑ a b c Thomas Fuchs: Bartholome Honnerlag. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 15, 2006 , accessed June 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Viktor Eugen Zellweger: The Honnerlag family in Trogen. 1671–1839. In: Appenzell Yearbooks . Vol. 58, 1930, pp. 1-19, here p. 8. ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-272158 ).
  6. ↑ Cantonal Library Appenzell Ausserrhoden (ed.): A portrait gallery of the Honnerlag family from the 17th and 18th centuries. Trogen 2007, pp. 16-17.
  7. ↑ Heidi Eisenhut: 'Diker Nebel envelops my mind again': Rosina Honnerlag-Zellweger to Johann Caspar Lavater. 2007. In: Appenzell Yearbooks . Vol. 135, 2007, pp. 37-55, here p. 42. ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-283405 ).
  8. ↑ Viktor Eugen Zellweger: The Honnerlag family in Trogen. 1671-1839. In: Appenzellian yearbooks . Vol. 58, 1930, pp. 1-19, here p. 7. ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-272158 ).
  9. ↑ Heidi Eisenhut: 'Diker Nebel envelops my mind again': Rosina Honnerlag-Zellweger to Johann Caspar Lavater. 2007. In: Appenzell Yearbooks . Vol. 135, pp. 37-55, here p. 38. ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-283405 )
  10. ↑ Heidi Eisenhut: 'Diker Nebel envelops my mind again': Rosina Honnerlag-Zellweger to Johann Caspar Lavater. 2007. In: Appenzell Yearbooks . Vol. 135, pp. 37-55, here p. 39 ( doi: 10.5169 / seals-283405 ).
personal data
SURNAME Honnerlag, Bartholome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Trogen
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1815
Place of death Trogen