Daniel Albert Fechter

Daniel Albert Fechter (born May 8, 1805 in Basel ; † April 1, 1876 ​​there ; entitled to live in Basel) was a Reformed Swiss theologian , educator and historian .

life and work

Fechter, son of a shoemaker, studied theology at the University of Basel and then worked from 1824 to 1876 as a teacher of Greek and Latin at the humanistic grammar school and from 1841 also at the pedagogy in Basel. From 1857 to 1876 he was also vice principal of the grammar school.

In addition to his teaching activities, Fechter carried out historical research, particularly on the history of Basel. At times he was editor of the Basler Taschenbuch . For the collection of the older federal farewells he was in charge of those volumes that covered the periods 1618–1648 and 1712–1743. He also edited the autobiographies of Thomas Platter the Elder , Felix Platter and Andreas Ryff .

Works (selection)

• The history of the school system in Basel until 1733. 2 vol., Basel 1837–1839.
• Thomas Platter and Felix Platter, two autobiographies. A contribution to the moral history of the XVI. Century. Basel 1840 (editor).
• The Amerbach copy of Vellejus Paterculus and its relationship to the Murbacher Codex and the editio princeps. Basel 1844.
• Fragment from the autobiography of Andreas Ryff. In: Basler Taschenbuch 1851, pp. 23–61 (editor).
• Topography, taking into account the history of culture and morals. In: Basel in the fourteenth century. Basel 1856, pp. 1–146.
• Peter von Hagenbach, bailiff of Duke Karl of Burgundy. Mulhouse 1868.
• The orphanage in Basel. Its creation, its development and its current existence. Basel 1871 (with Johann Jakob Schäublin ).

literature

• Wilhelm Vischer :  Fechter, Daniel Albert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 593 f.
• Hermann Wichers : Fechter, Daniel Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

• Publications by Daniel Albert Fechter in the Opac der Regesta Imperii