Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen

Portrait of Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen (1817–1887), 1860–1864, photograph by Vollenweider & Escher, Bern, Bern Burgerbibliothek, FP.B.261

Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen (born January 14, 1817 in Bern ; † August 16, 1887 there ) was a Swiss historian and private scholar .

Life

As the son of an officer, Gottfried von Mülinen, and Margarete geb. He studied von Graffenried in the tradition of the von Mülinen family in Berlin and Leipzig and, as a private scholar, wrote primarily on the church history of Switzerland , the Jura and the Emmental . Tireless research in archives, especially in the famous private library founded by his great-grandfather, the Bernese mayor Albrecht von Mülinen , enabled him, among other things, to write the first two volumes of the original Helvetia Sacra on the church leaders.

• Volume 1 with 242 pages appeared in 1858 and deals with the cathedral and canons' monasteries as well as the old abbeys.
• Volume 2 with 256 pages was published in 1861 and describes the later monastic orders, both the orders of mendicant monks (Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, Carmelites) that emerged in the 13th century and the ecclesiastical corporations and congregations that have been in the countries of Christianity that have remained Catholic since the 16th century and up to modern times (Capuchins, Jesuits, Trappists, Ligorians, Redemptorists, etc.).

In addition, Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen created a collection of almost 2,000 works on paper of portraits of Swiss and international personalities, which is now in the Burgerbibliothek Bern . In 1884 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern . He was the father of the women's rights activist Helene von Mülinen .

Works

• Helvetia Sacra , Verlag Stämpfli, Bern, 1858–1861
• Rauracia sacra ou Dictionnaire Historique Du Clerge Catholique Jurassien , 1864, ISBN 978-1167483523
• Prodromus of a Swiss historiography in alphabetical order encompassing historians from all cantons and all centuries , bookstore von Huber and Company (H. Koerber), 1874, 240 pages
• Contributions to the local history of the Canton of Bern , 1879

literature

• Rudolf Emanuel Berthold von Mülinen-Gurowski: Family history and genealogy of the counts v. Mülinen , Berlin 1844. online , digitized
• Archive for Swiss History , 1889, 342 f., (With catalog raisonné)
• Burgerbibliothek Bern , letters and a personal copy of the author's original Helvetia Sacra with numerous handwritten additions and corrections

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Müller: Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 15, 2001 , accessed July 1, 2019 .
2. ↑ Swissbib entry for the libraries from which the original Helvetia Sacra can be borrowed
3. ^ Portrait collection by Mülinen in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern

Web links

• Publications by Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii