Ferdinand Meyer (politician)

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Ferdinand Meyer (also: Meier ) (* March 7, 1799 in Zurich ; † May 11, 1840 there ) was a Swiss politician and historian .

Life

family

Ferdinand Meyer was born as the fourth son of Johann Jakob Meyer (1763-1819), chief magistrate and colonel , and his wife Susana († 1800), a daughter of the businessman Jakob Christoph Meyer.

His siblings were:

  • Heinrich Meyer-Hess (1789–1825), public prosecutor and member of the Grand Council ;
  • Friedrich Meyer-Schulthess (1792–1870), officer in the French Swiss Guard and painter;
  • Wilhelm Meyer-Ott (1797–1877), city councilor and military writer.

Ferdinand Meyer was married to Elisabeth Franziska Charlotte (Betsy) "Elise" (born June 10, 1802 in Zurich; † September 27, 1856 in Préfargier near Marin-Epagnier ), a daughter of the chief judge and Grand Councilor Johann Ulrich-Zeller (1761 -1828). They had two children together:

Career

Ferdinand Meyer attended high school and studied history and political science at the Political Institute in Zurich, which was created in 1807 to train lawyers and politicians.

In 1818 he became the secretary of his father, who was head of the district court in Grüningen in the castle there , but died in 1819. After the death of his father he became an aspirant for the federal genius corps at the military school in Thun . There he created additional drawings of field fortifications in addition to his collected booklets .

At Easter 1820 he moved to the University of Berlin to study history and political science; he took u. a. the lectures of Friedrich Carl von Savigny and an intern at Friedrich Schleiermacher . In 1821 he studied administration and general academic training at the University of Göttingen during the summer semester in addition to his classical studies with Karl Friedrich Eichhorn . In the political sciences, he limited himself to historical and scientific topics. In 1821 he returned to Switzerland.

In the spring of 1822 he began his practical career in the public service as secretary of the judicial commission. At the same time he was given the subjects of state economics and statistics at the Political Institute. In the spring of 1826 he was appointed third state clerk by the government .

In 1830 he became a councilor and was instrumental in drafting the new constitution, which came into force in 1831. In 1832 he resigned from the government council because part of the liberals, the “radicals”, allied themselves with representatives of the countryside against the supremacy. Ferdinand Meyer was still available for drafting bills and also retained his position on the Education Council, of which he was elected President on October 2, 1839. As an educator, he was instrumental in establishing the University of Zurich in 1832 . He was also a member of several commissions in the Great Council, and he was a member of the Church Council and the Council of the Interior.

In spring 1833 he took over the teaching position for history and geography at the lower grammar school when the canton school opened. He remained in this office until 1839.

Honors

  • Because of his work on the Protestant community in Locarno , he was honored by the University of Zurich in 1836 by awarding him an honorary doctorate .
  • He was an honorary member of the Swiss non-profit society .

Fonts (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Meyer, Ferdinand - German biography. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2018]).
  3. Archive for Swiss History ed. at the event of the general history research society of Switzerland . Meier et al. Zeller, 1843 ( google.de [accessed January 27, 2018]).
  4. ^ New Year's Gazette for the year ... for the good of the orphanage in Zurich . 1849 ( google.de [accessed January 27, 2018]).
  5. ^ Ferdinand (Meyer) Meyer-Ulrich (1799-1840) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
  6. The old chronicles: or Memories of the city and landscape of Zurich from the earliest times to 1820 . Printed and published by Friedrich Schulthess, 1845 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2018]).
  7. Austrian observer . A. Strauss, 1839 ( google.de [accessed January 27, 2018]).
  8. ^ Negotiations of the Swiss Charitable Society . 1840 ( google.de [accessed on January 27, 2018]).