Emil Franz Josef Müller-Büchi

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Emil Franz Josef Müller-Büchi (1970)

Emil Franz Josef Müller-Büchi (born March 13, 1901 in Näfels ; † May 11, 1980 in Freiburg im Üechtland ) was a Swiss journalist and legal historian .

Life

Emil Franz Josef Müller was the son of the bookbinder Fridolin Emil Müller (1873–1956) and his wife Maria Anna, nee. Feldmann (1871-1903). He first studied German and history, later law at the University of Freiburg . In 1925 he was promoted to Dr. phil. and in 1931 Dr. iur. PhD . In 1927 he married Beatrix Büchi, a daughter of the historian Albert Büchi .

From 1930 to 1954 Müller-Büchi was editor and then director of the Catholic International Press Agency . At the same time, he was a lecturer at the University of Freiburg from 1941, and in 1946 he was titular professor for newspaper and radio studies and legal history. In 1950 he became an associate professor and in 1952 a full professor for the history of political ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1971 Müller-Büchi retired.

Müller-Büchi built up the newspaper studies and journalism department at the University of Freiburg. In this as well as in legal history (research, among other things, in Swiss and German legal history as well as private law) he was considered a pioneering teacher.

Works (selection)

  • The Catholic Church and the new building of the Austrian state. Kipa, Freiburg 1933/34.
  • Catholic Handbook of Switzerland. Rex, Lucerne 1943.
  • The old "Schwyzer-Zeitung" 1848–1866: a contribution to the history of political Catholicism and the conservative press in the state from 1848. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1962.
  • Philipp Anton von Segesser : the council, the revision of the federal constitution and the Kulturkampf (= Freiburg publications from the area of ​​church and state. Vol. 18). Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1977, ISBN 3-7278-0161-1 .

literature

  • Emil Franz Josef Müller-Büchi. In memoriam. Published by the Law, Economics and Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Freiburg, with the support of the University Council. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1980, ISBN 3-7278-0236-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Freiburg im Uechtland , website by Gerhard Köbler , accessed on May 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Büchi, Emil Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Näfels
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1980
Place of death Freiburg in Üechtland