Erich Gruner

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Erich Gruner (1979)

Erich Kurt Paul Gruner (born January 5, 1915 in Bern ; † February 21, 2001 there ) was a Swiss historian and political scientist .

Life

The son of a pastor and Bernburger and a teacher studied history at the universities of Bern (among others with Werner Näf and Richard Feller ) and Vienna . He was a Richard Feller 1942 dissertation on "The Bernese patrician and regeneration " doctorate .

From 1941 to 1961 he worked as a high school teacher in Basel . In 1961 he became a full professor for social history and sociology of Swiss politics at the University of Bern. There he founded the “Research Center for Swiss Politics” (today: “Institute for Political Science”) in 1965, which he headed until his retirement in 1985. Also from 1965 he edited the yearbook Année politique suisse together with Peter Gilg .

Gruner's areas of activity were the associations , parties and political institutions in Switzerland. He promoted the application of social science approaches in Swiss history and the institutionalization of political science in Switzerland. Along with Markus Mattmüller (Basel) and Rudolf Braun (Zurich), he was one of the pioneers of social history writing in German-speaking Switzerland . In 1977 he was an initiator of the VOX analyzes . Gruner also wrote teaching aids on 20th century world history and Swiss civics.

In 1975 the University of Lausanne honored him with an honorary doctorate . He was married to Dorothea Burckhardt from Basel and was the son-in-law of Paul Burckhardt .

Gruner's estate is in the Bern Burger Library .

In memory of him, the "Erich Gruner Prize" has been awarded by the alumni of the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bern since 2018 .

Works (selection)

  • The Bernese patriciate and regeneration. Lang, Bern 1943 (dissertation, University of Bern, 1942).
  • The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848–1920. 2 volumes. Francke, Bern 1966.
  • The workers in Switzerland in the 19th century. Social situation, organization, relationship to employer and state. Francke, Bern 1968; Reprint: Kraus, Munich 1980.
  • The parties in Switzerland. Francke, Bern 1969; 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1977.
  • The Swiss Federal Assembly 1920–1968. Francke, Bern 1970.
  • (Ed.) Workers and the economy in Switzerland, 1880–1914. 3 volumes. Chronos, Zurich 1987/1988.

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Burgerbuch 2015, p. 268.
  2. ^ Bernard Degen : Mattmüller, Markus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ Erich Gruner's estate (part of the Gruner family archive ) in the Bern Burger Library catalog .
  4. ↑ Erich Gruner Prize. In: ipwalumni.unibe.ch. October 19, 2018, accessed May 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gruner, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruner, Erich Kurt Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2001
Place of death Bern