Franz Xaver Bronner

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Franz Xaver Bronner (born December 23, 1758 in Höchstädt an der Donau , † August 12, 1850 in Aarau ) was a Swiss poet, publicist and archivist of German origin.

The son of a brick maker entered the Benedictine monastery in Donauwörth in Bavaria in 1776 , where he became familiar with the Catholic Enlightenment . In 1782 he joined the Order of the Illuminati and was ordained a priest in 1783. In 1785 the enlightener fled the monastery to Zurich , where he made the acquaintance of Salomon Gessner's circle . 1786–1793 he stayed in Augsburg , then again in Zurich. From 1794–1798 he was editor of the Zürcher Zeitung , and in 1798 he became secretary to the governor of the Canton of Zurich, Johann Kaspar Pfenninger . From 1798–1801 he was head of the office of the Helvetian Minister Philipp Albert Stapfer . In 1799 he published the Helvetische Tagblatt , 1799–1800 the Freyheitsfreund . 1804–1810 and 1817–1827 he was a teacher at the Aarau Cantonal School ; in the meantime he held a professorship for physics at the University of Kazan in Russia. From 1829 he was a canton archivist in Aarau.

The estate of Franz Xaver Bronner is located in the State Archives of Aargau .

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SURNAME Bronner, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Höchstädt on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1850
Place of death Aarau