Beat by Scarpatetti

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Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti (born May 23, 1941 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss historian , palaeographer , lecturer and cultural worker with a focus on ecology .

Life and professional activity

Beat von Scarpatetti is the third of four children of Fritz von Scarpatetti, manager of a wine shop in Schaffhausen, and Gertrude von Scarpatetti, librarian at the Schaffhausen City Library . He attended the Benedictine college in Disentis ( Graubünden ), then the canton school in Schaffhausen for another two years . He studied history in Freiburg im Breisgau and Basel and received his doctorate in 1970 under Werner Kaegi in Basel. This was followed by post-graduate studies in Paris .

St. Gallen Abbey Library

In 1972 he became editor of the Catalog des manuscrits datés for Switzerland and at the same time cataloger of the manuscripts at the St. Gallen Abbey Library . 1982 began a cursory teaching position at the University of Upper Alsace in Mulhouse . 1995 followed by the Conseil national des universités (CNU) in Paris the habilitation as Maître de conférences .

He is a specialist in medieval manuscripts and the author of a number of manuscript catalogs, manuals and historical studies. In 1979 he was accepted into the Comité International de Paléographie (Paris).

Beat von Scarpatetti married the singer Liane Stalder in 1979. The daughters Franca (* 1982) and Viola (* 1987) emerged from this marriage . He has lived in Binningen in the canton of Basel-Landschaft since 1971 .

Ecological commitment

Beat von Scarpatetti was involved in a number of ecological initiatives. In 1978 he was one of the founders of the “Working Group for Organic Farming in the Third World” at “Terre des hommes Switzerland” (Basel). In 1984/87 he founded the St. Gallen Forest Manuscript . 123 authors donated original texts for this purpose. These were written on parchment in the style of old manuscripts . According to tradition, the texts of the forest manuscript are only distributed by hand, copies and photographs are obsolete. In 1991 the pact between man and nature followed with the delivery of the charter man-nature to those committed to the environment.

For the Helvetic anniversary in 1998, the Helvetic Ecological Constitution was published , a transcription of the first Swiss constitution by Peter Ochs . In 2010 the translation of Ochs' work La Journée des Quatre Sapins , a proto-ecological poem by the future Basel statesman, followed.

With Martin Vosseler, Scarpatetti was a founder and crew member of the Transatlantic21 expedition . In 2006/07 this enabled the first purely solar-powered Atlantic crossing.

In the Basel area, von Scarpatetti co-founded the eco-city of Basel in 1987 and the eco- community of Binningen in 1989. In 2004 he started the Binningen spring project , an inventory and conservation of around 50 Binningen water sources.

In 2004 Beat von Scarpatetti was the founder and president of the Club of Car Free Switzerland (CAS), which in 2014 merged with the Swiss Transport Club (VCS).

Publications (selection)

  • La question de l'environnement à la Renaissance: L'humanisme rhénan entre affirmation et négation de “Woman's World” (XVe – XVIe siècles) , in: l'espace rhénan, pôle de savoirs, sous la direction de Catherine Maurer [et al .], Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2013, pp. 37–50
  • The day of the four firs: lyrical drama. Presented to the Helvetic Society in Olten on May 14, 1782 by Peter Ochs . Free German transmission Beat by Scarpatetti. Edited by Cyrill Jeger. Historical Museum, Olten 2010, ISBN 978-3-9522830-6-6
  • with others: Binningen - the story (= sources and research on the history and regional studies of the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Volume 85). Verlag des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, Liestal 2004, ISBN 3-85673-278-X
  • Helvetic ecological constitution: constitution helvétique = ecological constitution, 1798–1998. A blueprint. With an afterword by Adolf Muschg . Schwabe, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7965-1331-X
  • St. Gallen Forest Manuscript , texts by 123 writers, written on parchment by 33 scriptors , 1984/87
  • Max Burckhardt , Pascal Ladner , Martin Steinmann (eds.): Catalog of the dated manuscripts in Switzerland in Latin script from the beginning of the Middle Ages to 1550. 6 volumes. Founded by Albert Bruckner . Arranged by Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Rudolf Gamper and Marlis Stähli. Urs Graf, Dietikon 1977–1991
  • The church and the Augustinian canons of St. Leonhard in Basel (11th / 12th century – 1525). A contribution to the history of the city of Basel and the late Devotio Moderna (= Basel contributions to the science of history. Volume 131). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel 1974 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1974)

literature

  • Daniel Egli (Hrsg.): Culture and ecology: Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Beat von Scarpatetti. Editors: Kurt Meyer, Manfred Welti. Binningen Organic Community Association, Binningen 2016, ISBN 978-3-033-05636-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Listes de qualification aux fonctions de maître de conférences arrêtées en 1995 par les sections du Conseil national des universités . ( gouv.fr [accessed July 26, 2016]).
  2. ^ Beat von Scarpatetti: Forest handwriting. In: www.beatvonscarpatetti.ch. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ transatlantic21. In: www.transatlantic21.org. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Stefanie Stäuble: Beat von Scarpatetti: “The VCS takes over my life's work”. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: VCS Magazin / July 2014. Archived from the original on July 19, 2016 ; Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Scarpatetti, beat of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scarpatetti, Beat Matthias von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, palaeographer, lecturer and cultural worker
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen