Emil Dürr

Emil Dürr (born December 3, 1883 in Bözingen , † February 12, 1934 in Basel ; legal resident in Pratteln ) was a Swiss historian and archivist .

Life

The son of a baker studied history at the universities of Geneva , Munich , Berlin and Basel , where he also received his doctorate in 1908. From 1909 he worked in the Basel-Stadt State Archives , and from 1914 to 1920 in the Swiss Economic Archives there . In 1918 he became an associate professor and in 1925 a full professor at the University of Basel. From 1931 he held the chair for general history with a special focus on Swiss history.

Scientifically, Dürr dealt primarily with Swiss history in the late Middle Ages and with Jacob Burckhardt . He was editor or co-editor of the first two volumes of the six-volume collection of files on the history of the Basel Reformation.

During the state strike in 1918, Dürr took part in building the vigilante group. In 1920 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) . His second marriage was to Adrienne von Speyr .

Emil Dürr died in an accident in 1934. He found his final resting place in the Hörnli cemetery .

Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Fonts (selection)

• The sources of Aegidius Tschudi in the presentation of the Old Zurich War: Books XI, XII, XIII of the Swiss Federal Chronicle examined critically. W. Riehm, Basel 1908 ( dissertation ).
• Galazzo Maria Sforza and his position on the Burgundian Wars. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde . Vol. 10, 1911, pp. 259-414 ( digitized version ).
• The Nicolai de preliis et occasu ducis Burgundie historia and their authors. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde. Vol. 11, 1912, pp. 395-419 ( digitized version ).
• The Foreign Policy of the Confederation and the Battle of Marignano: On September 13th and 14th 1915 - A contribution to the origin and essence of Swiss neutrality. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel 1915.
• The Milan capitulate, Savoy and the Burgundian-Swiss treaty of 1467. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde. Vol. 14, 1915, pp. 203-273 ( digitized version ).
• Freedom and power with Jacob Burckhardt. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel 1918.
• Machiavelli's judgment on Switzerland. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde. Vol. 17, 1918, pp. 162-194 ( digitized version ).
• Democracy in Switzerland, according to Alexis de Tocqueville. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde. Vol. 23, 1925, pp. 225-279 ( digitized version ).
• Modern changes in Swiss politics: A historical-political consideration of the economicization of political motives and parties. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel 1928.
• The policy of the confederates in the XIV. And XV. Century: Federal great power politics in the age of the Milan wars (= Swiss war history. H. 4). Higher War Commissariat, Bern 1933.
• Jacob Burckhardt as a political journalist: With his newspaper reports from 1844/45. Fretz and Wasmuth, Zurich 1937.

literature

• Felix Stähelin : Words of Memory of Prof. Dr. Emil Dürr, Head of the Historical and Antiquarian Society , spoke at the meeting on February 26, 1934. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde . Vol. 33 (1934), pp. 2-3 ( online ).
• Hermann Aellen (ed.): Swiss contemporary lexicon . 2nd edition. Gotthelf-Verlag, Bern 1932.
• Andreas Amiet, Anton Gössi (eds.): Hermann Bächtold , Emil Dürr and the Basel Historical Circle: A memorial. Historical circle, Basel 1984.
• Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X .

Web links

• Werner Baumann: Emil Dürr. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .