Christoph Pfister

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Christoph Pfister (born October 10, 1945 in Bern ) is a Swiss historian and author . He is a representative of the criticism of chronology , which is viewed as meaningless in scientific circles. He mainly deals with historical and local history topics about Switzerland in general and the city and the canton of Bern in particular.

Life

Christoph Pfister spent his childhood in Bern, where he was born to Robert Pfister, a general agent, and Marie-Elise, née Roos. There he attended primary school from 1952 to 1956 and secondary school from 1956 to 1960 . In 1960 he moved to Freiburg , where he joined the St. Michael College and completed the humanistic grammar school up to the 5th grade . From 1964 to 1967 he prepared himself at a private school and in self-study for the Federal Matura examination type A, which he passed in St. Gallen in September 1967. From the winter semester 1967/68 onwards, Pfister majored in modern history , with the minor subjects medieval history ( Medieval studies ) and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Freiburg i. Ü. He also attended lectures from other areas of the philosophy faculty. In 1974 he did his doctorate with Heribert Raab on the subject of the journalism of Karl Ludwig von Haller in the early period 1793-1815. Pfister then worked as a university assistant, later as a language teacher and publicist. In the 1990s he began to turn to topics critical of history and chronology . He often takes the circumstances of his Swiss environment as the basis for his considerations. He has published various articles in the regional press, given lectures and written books. He was responsible for proofreading the German translation of Georges Andrey’s bestseller Swiss History for Dummies . Since 2011, Pfister has published his older writings in book form free of charge and updated as e-books in its own series of historical and philological works . The series currently consists of eight volumes. Volume 6, Contributions to the Historiography of Freiburg in the 18th and 19th Centuries , is not yet available as an e-book. Pfister worked in Freiburg . He is unmarried and has lived in Matran near Freiburg since 2015 .

theses

Pfister's main work to date is his book The Matrix of Ancient History (2013). In it, he summarizes the various historical and chronology-critical approaches of older and contemporary authors into a separate, radical set of theses. He drew fundamental suggestions from the works of Anatoli Timofejewitsch Fomenko , Wilhelm Kammeier , Uwe Topper , Karl August von Cohausen , Nikolai Morosow , Robert Baldauf , Edwin Johnson , Francesco Carotta and Joseph Yahuda. Essentially, Pfister advocates the thesis that reliable historical knowledge ends a few decades before the French Revolution . Pfister regards earlier dated traditions, be they documents or inscriptions on buildings, as forgeries that are part of a religious historical invention by a few authors in the early 18th century, whose works subsequently served as templates for further historical inventions. The organizational problems that would have been connected with such a comprehensive counterfeit campaign, which in addition to Europe apparently also included the rest of the Mediterranean, remain unresolved.

In the languages Greek , Latin and Hebrew , Pfister sees artifacts of a former hegemonic power in Europe for the purpose of communication in administration, the army and religion. Greek was created first, later replaced by Latin. Pfister sees Hebrew as the youngest of the three artificial languages. On the one hand, the vocabulary consists to a considerable extent of Greek words and, on the other hand, of German.

In addition to source and text-critical work, Pfister deals with the history of construction and technology. Progress in the latter areas had been much faster than previously assumed. The development of the architectural historical epochs Romanesque , Gothic , Renaissance up to the Baroque is said to have taken place in phases of a few decades in the 17th and 18th centuries after the invention of mortar prevailed around 1700. This is why Pfister considers the buildings of ancient Rome to be much younger than the established doctrinal opinion. In this context, he also criticizes the conventional historical image of the construction of old churches, in which construction times of several hundred years are assumed. Here, too, Pfister assumes that the times of origin will be much shorter, just a few years.

One of Christoph Pfister's special hobbies is castle lore. He is particularly interested in the old fortifications, the oppida, the earth castles and the stone castles. From these attachments the author draws conclusions about the underlying culture and a relative chronology.

He describes the White Book of Sarnen as a deliberate forgery from the 19th century. The chronic part was written much later without any value and only to spread the myth of Tell .

Pfister rejects scientific methods for determining the age of substances such as radiocarbon dating as useless. In his opinion, there is currently no instrument to be able to date material without any doubt correctly.

For years, Christoph Pfister has represented the following theses on history and chronology: Today's human culture and society emerged perhaps 400 years ago. Cement or mortar made it possible in Roman times, a little over three hundred years ago. - The Middle Ages began less than 300 years ago and lasted about three generations. - The post-Roman style sequence of Romanesque and Gothic was replaced by the new styles of Baroque, Rococo and Classicism around 1770. - The Anno Domini dating in use today was perhaps introduced around 1740. - The written transmission in manuscripts and prints began around 1750. At this time the artistic production with paintings and drawings began. But the entire literary production of the first fifty years after its beginning is to be regarded as a single historical poem. The contents and dates up to around 1800 are only of symbolic value. The literary history invention had religious motives.

In the dispute over the theories of Heribert Illig , Pfister took a clear position against Illig and criticized his thesis about Charlemagne as "impossible".

The manned moon landings of the USA considered Pfister as "Fake" (fake). He mainly uses the arguments published by the controversial author Gernot L. Geise .

At the beginning of 2016, Pfister published an online manifesto on historical and chronological criticism - also in French and English translation.

In the spring of the same year he published the place names of Switzerland in a new and expanded version.

The revised edition of Johann Rudolf Wyss appeared in autumn 2016 : The evening of Geristein and The Knight of Aegerten . In addition to changes to the images and comments, the editor has also added a legend to the booklet about the devil's kitchen in Grauholz near Bern .

Christoph Pfister's website contains around 170 illustrated articles on history, philology and local history, including around 90 articles on castles, especially earth castles and castle sites, in the canton of Bern and the rest of western Switzerland.

reception

Pfister's theses are seldom heeded or then rejected by the established research world. In chronology-critical circles, which are not taken seriously by established historians, however, his writings are known and enjoy a certain recognition as fundamental works in the German-speaking world. Pfister's historical and local studies, including those of the Ankh of Bern, the Celts or various earth castles in the Bern area, are occasionally the subject of sometimes critical Swiss press reports. The Swiss cultural anthropologist Kurt Derungs refers to Pfister's work as part of his research.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Pfister: CV. In: Christoph Pfister: The journalism of Karl Ludwig von Hallers in the early days. 1791-1815. Bern: Herbert Lang; Frankfurt / M .: Peter Lang 1975. p. 205.
  2. ^ Christoph Pfister: Biography & Works. In: History and Chronology. Criticism. Cuts. Reconstruction. Historical analytics. International scientific and popular scientific website for historical criticism and new chronology. [1]
  3. ↑ Eugen Gabowitsch: A chronological revolution made by historical analytics. In: International Historical-Analytical Almanac. Vol. 1 issue 1 (2007) pp. 12 and 18f. [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 240 kB) (English); Christoph Pfister: Theses on the criticism of history and chronology. Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ihaal.com    @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dillum.ch
  4. ↑ Christoph Pfister: The big plan. In: The Bund. November 27, 2003. Issue no. 250. p. 8; Christoph Pfister: Does geometry solve the riddle? Celtic wall and Knebelburg on the Jäissberg near Port. In: Solothurner Zeitung. November 9, 1998. p. 17; Christoph Pfister: Interesting building from the Celtic world. In: The Bund. April 11, 1996. Issue No. 84. p. 9.
  5. ↑ Georges Andrey: Swiss history for dummies. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag 2009.
  6. ^ Christoph Pfister: Hebraica historica. New insights into the history and origin of the Hebrew language in Europe and Switzerland. [3]
  7. ↑ Christoph Pfister: On the long building history of the Middle Ages. Criticism of the traditional chronology and attempt to reconsider it. In: Zeitensprünge (formerly Vorzeit-Frühzeit-Gegenwart) vol. 11. Issue 1 (1999), pp. 139–166.
  8. ↑ Christoph Pfister: The old confederates. The emergence of the Schwyz Confederation in the light of historical criticism and the role of Bern. P. 94 (PDF; 13.07 MB)
  9. ^ Christoph Pfister: Anti-Illig. Heribert Illig and his impossible thesis about Charlemagne.
  10. ↑ Christoph Pfister: The fake of the American moon landings, 1969 ff. - The Apollo hoax of the Americans.
  11. ↑ Online Manifesto on the Critique of History and Chronology
  12. ↑ Thomas von Graffenried: [book review on] Pfister, Christoph: Der antike Berner Bär. The prehistory of a mighty city. 2nd edition Friborg: Dillum Verlag des Autors, 2002. 190 pp., ISBN 3-0344-0010-1 In: Swiss Journal for History 53 (2002) p. 225 (also in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde. 65 . Vol. 4 (2003) pp. 215–216 [4]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ); Daniel Gutscher: Historical event and archaeological evidence. Thoughts to introduce the topic. In: Mittelalter - Moyen Age - Medioevo - Temp medieval. Journal of the Swiss Castle Association. 11th vol. 3 (2006) p. 134f. or in: Communications of the German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times 16. (2005) p. 10 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 145 kB); Wilhelm Kaltenstadler : How Europe became what it is. Contributions to the Jewish roots of European culture. Gross-Gerau: Ancient Mailverlag 2008.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bzgh.ch   @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgamn.de
  13. ↑ Eugen Gabowitsch: Alternative history and chronological criticism. International all-day conference in the Karlsruhe History Salon on July 29, 2000. [5] ; Gernot L. Geise and Uwe Topper : Books by Christoph Pfister. [6] ; Heribert Illig: 297 years - the length of the phantom time. In: Zeitensprünge 3/2006. [7] ; Andreas Otte: Chronology Reconstruction. In: Chronology Reconstruction.
  14. ^ Christoph Pfister: The Ankh of Bern. In: Synesis Vol. 9 No. 54 Issue 6 (2002). Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.efodon.de
  15. ↑ Rahel Meile: “Castles are my hobby” In: Berner Zeitung. October 25, 2004. p. 24; other online version p. 28 f. ; (PDF file; 100 kB)
  16. ↑ Stefan von Bergen: Longing for the ancient Celts. In: Berner Zeitung. June 13, 2009. [8] , Jörg Kiefer: Did the Celts want it that way? Name twins on land survey lines. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. January 3, 2004. Issue no. 1. p. 14 [9] ; Felix Maise: Not yet removed from the base. In: Tages-Anzeiger. November 8, 2002. p. 42; This Rutishauser: The city of Bern, a foundation of the Celts? In: The Small Bund. August 17, 2002. p. 5; Rebekka Reichlin: «The Celts measured the land precisely» In: Der Bund. November 14, 1997, Issue No. 266, p. 31; Carole Schneuwly: Christoph Pfister presents a book about Freiburg history. In: Freiburger Nachrichten, March 28, 2008. p. 6 [10] ; Rosmarie Waldner: A bear pit in ancient times? Gallo-Roman layout on the Bernese Engeh peninsula reinterpreted. In: Tages-Anzeiger. May 7, 1997. p. 74.
  17. ↑ Kurt Derungs: Mysterious Bern. Sacred sites on the Aare. Grenchen: Amalia Verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-905581-30-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfister, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern