Eduard Vischer (historian)

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Eduard Vischer (born December 3, 1903 in Rupperswil , † September 13, 1996 in Basel ) was a Swiss historian .

Life

Eduard Wilhelm Vischer-Jenny (1903–1996) Dr. phil., historian, high school teacher, state archivist and librarian. Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Eduard Wilhelm Vischer was born as the son of the pastor Eduard Vischer and his wife Emma. Heusler was born in Rupperswil. After the baccalaureate exam in 1923 at the Cantonal School in Aarau, he studied history in Basel, Heidelberg and Geneva and in 1929 in Basel to the Dr. phil. PhD. From 1934 to 1963 he was a high school teacher in Glarus. From 1963 to 1969 he worked as a state archivist and librarian.

Vischer was one of the founders of the Basel Historical Circle in 1934; for his numerous scientific work he received the Basel Science Prize in 1969 and the Culture Prize of the Canton of Glarus in 1980 .

Fonts

  • The changes in the relationship between school and church and state in Basel from the middle of the 18th to the end of the 19th century. Diss. Phil. Basel 1929 (printed: Zurich 1931); Book trade edition : (= Swiss studies of historical science. 15, no.3) Leemann, Zurich 1930, pp. 455–673.
  • Barthold Georg Niebuhr and Switzerland. In: The world as history. 16, 1956, pp. 1-40.
  • Wilhelm Vischer, scholar and councilor, 1808–1874, as reflected in his correspondence with Rudolf Rauchstein. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1958.
  • On Swiss historiography in the first third of the 20th century . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History , Vol. 50, 1973, pp. 5-38. ( Digitized version )
  • Early Aargau period 1803–1852. Collected Studies. Sauerländer, Aarau 1976, ISBN 3-794125371 In: Argovia . Annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. 88, 1976, pp. 5-372. ( Digitized version )
  • Home and world. Studies on the history of a Swiss rural community democracy. Francke, Bern 1983. ISBN 3317015837 .
  • (as ed.): Barthold Georg Niebuhr : Briefe. New series, 1816–1830. , 4 vols., Francke, Bern 1981-1884.
  • On the history of historiography. A gleaning. Francke, Bern 1985, ISBN 3-7720-1610-3 .

literature

  • Heinrich Staehelin: In memory of Dr. Eduard Vischer (1903-1996) In: Argovia 109, 1997, p. 223f. ( Digitized version )
  • On the occasion of his 100th birthday, issue 83, 2003 of the yearbook of the Historical Association of the Canton of Glarus brings u. a .: Three previously unpublished (autobiographical) texts by Vischer as well as a catalog raisonné (mainly limited to Glarus topics).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. curriculum vitae of his dissertation, here in the print edition Zurich 1931.
personal data
SURNAME Vischer, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vischer, Eduard Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Rupperswil
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1996
Place of death Basel