Christian Krüsi

Christian Krüsi (born March 16, 1827 in Urnäsch , † February 9, 1886 Basel ; legal resident in Gais ) was a Swiss printer and publisher from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Christian Krüsi was a son of Johannes Krüsi and Anna Elisabeth Meier. He married Maria Louise Zahler, daughter of Johannes Zahler. He entered into a second marriage with Margretha Johanna Heim, daughter of Salomo Heim, host of the Kurhaus zum Ochsen and mayor of the parish . A third time he married Maria Elisabeth Wenger, daughter of Johann Ludwig Wenger. He was a brother-in-law of Johann Heinrich Heim .

He abolvierte a printer teach in Herisau . Krüsi settled in Basel at the beginning of the 1850s. There he developed a restless activity as a printer and publisher. In 1853, he was sentenced to three months in prison for disseminating indecent writings . From 1852 to 1857 he published the Schweizerische National-Zeitung and from 1859 to 1862 the Schweizerische Illustrierte Zeitung . From 1861 to 1870 he published the folk novelist . This was followed by the Swiss Volksgarten from 1870 to 1871 and the Magasin illustré from 1862 to 1883 . He was more successful as a publisher of various works of art. Of these, the monuments of world history , published from 1870 to 1878, were the most significant.

literature

• Gais Citizens Register, No. 1026, in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden State Archives .
• Ernst H. Koller and Jakob Signer: Appenzell's coat of arms and gender book. Stämpfli, Bern 1926, p. 181.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Christian Krüsi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 3, 2006 , accessed August 21, 2020 .
• Krüsi, Christian. In: Sikart (status: 2019), accessed on August 21, 2020.

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