Franz Guillimann

Franz Guillimann (also François Guillimat ; * around 1568 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; † October 14, 1612 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Swiss historian and neo-Latin poet .

Life

Franz Guillimann was a student at the Collegium Saint-Michel in Freiburg and a student at the Collegium Helveticum in Milan . From 1587 to 1589 he studied rhetoric and philosophy at the University of Dillingen . From 1590 to 1595 he was first a teacher , then head of the Latin school in Solothurn .

Guillimann was banished from Solothurn when he sympathized with the Catholic side under the Spanish King Philip II and the Dukes of Guise in connection with the late Huguenot Wars . That was contrary to the policy of the true Catholic Solothurn government in this conflict but traditionally the French king, then the more times converted " Huguenot king " Henry IV. , Remained loyal, and those with rice runners ( mercenaries ) supported.

From 1595 Guillimann worked for the Spanish embassy in Lucerne and began with historical studies on the old Confederation and the Habsburgs . In 1605 Guillimann went to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he was professor of history at the university from 1606 to 1609 (appointed by Emperor Rudolf II ). He maintained correspondence with Johann Jakob Rüeger and Christoph Hartmann, among others . The latter was able to win Guillimann's library for the Einsiedeln monastery.

Works

Franz Guillimann wrote poems in Latin. His historical works dealt first with the history of Switzerland, later with that of the Habsburgs.

• De rebus Helvetiorum sive antiquitatum Libri V , 1598. Treats the history of Switzerland up to 1315 from a Catholic perspective; Counter-draft to the Reformed Chronicle by Johannes Stumpf and Josias Simler .
• Habsburgiaca sive de antiqua et vera origine domus Austriae , 1605.
• De Felici Excessu Philippi II. Austriaci Hispaniarum Regis Libri III. Sive de rebus memorabilibus quae in eius morte acciderunt, testimonium Authenticum . Langius, Freiburg im Breisgau 1609.

literature

• Richard Feller , Edgar Bonjour : History of Switzerland , Helbing & Lichtenhahn 1979, Volume 1, ISBN 3-7190-0722-7 , pages 292-295
• Johann Kälin: Franz Guillimann, a Freiburg historian from the turn of the 16th century. Century . German Historical Research Association of the Canton of Friborg , Friborg 1905 (Freiburger Geschichtsblätter, 11).
• Oskar Vasella :  Guillimann, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 299 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg von Wyß :  Guillimann, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 107-111.

Honors

• In Freiburg i. Ü. is a street named after Franz Guillimann: Map.Search: Rue François Guillimann, Friborg

Web links

• Marianne role: Guillimann, Franz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
• Current directory of Franz Guillimann in VD 16 .
• Publications by and about Franz Guillimann in VD 17 .