Emanuel von Graffenried (patrician)

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Emanuel von Graffenried, painting by Heinrich Rieter (1785)
Emanuel von Graffenried's handwriting (1763)

Emanuel von Graffenried (born December 12, 1726 in Bern , † November 26, 1787 in Geneva ) was a Bernese patrician .

Life

Emanuel von Graffenried studied law in Halle from 1746 and Marburg from 1748. He married Dorothea Rosina Tschiffeli in 1761. In 1764 he joined the Bernese Grand Council . He was an assessor at the city court and in the German Chamber of Appeals, council of commerce and director of the Inselspital . In 1772 he became a school supervisor, from 1773 to 1779 he served as Obervogt zu Schenkenberg and in 1785 he became chairman of the orphan court.

He was lord of Burgistein and co- lord of Seftigen and Gurzelen . In 1780 Graffenried became President of the Helvetic Society and in 1786 President of the Economic Society of Bern.

Graffenried's library of 2369 titles is located in Burgistein Castle.

Fonts

  • The benefits and disadvantages of grazing . In: Treatises and observations collected by the Economic Society of Bern , Bern, 4th year, 3rd piece (1763), pp. 105–153. doi: 10.5169 / seals-386587
  • Excerpt from various betting pamphlets that have come in, about the price question advertised for the year 1762: Is it useful to distribute the allments? and [sw] . In: Treatises and observations collected by the Ökonomische Gesellschaft zu Bern , Bern, 6th year, 1st piece (1765), pp. 1-40. doi: 10.5169 / seals-386626

literature

  • Peter Bichsel: Burgistein Castle Library , In: Handbook of Historical Book Holdings Switzerland, Zurich, New York 2011, pp. 269–271.
  • Holger Glinka, Frank Grunert: The Grotius Lecture by Christian Wolff from the Emanuel von Graffenried Collection , In: Jörn Bohr (Ed.): Kolleghefte, Kollegnachschriften and minutes. Problems and Tasks of the Philosophical Edition , Berlin 2019, pp. 7–20.
  • Raya Hauri: A one-time find. The library of Burgistein Castle , In: Domus Antiqua Helvetica. Swiss Association of Owners of Historic Residential Buildings , Bulletin No. 70 (2019), pp. 30–35.
  • Béla Kapossy: The book treasure of Emanuel IV. Von Graffenried (1726–1787) In: André von Graffenried (ed.): Burgistein Castle. Back in the Gürbetal and in the middle of Europe, a documentation , Bern and Burgistein 2018, pp. 208–217.
  • Regula Wyss: Magistrate and reformer - Emanuel von Graffenried von Burgistein (1726–1787) , In: André Holenstein ea: Berns goldene Zeit. The 18th century rediscovered , Bern 2008, p. 35.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glinka / Grunert 2019, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Glinka / Grunert 2019, p. 9.

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personal data
SURNAME Graffenried, Emanuel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1787
Place of death Geneva