Friedrich Frey (archivist)

Friedrich Frey (born May 28, 1867 in Brugg , † September 2, 1933 in Glarus ) was a canton archivist and local researcher from Brugg .

biography

Friedrich Frey grew up in Brugg and was born as the son of watchmaker Friedrich Frey and Maria Leutwyler. In 1891 he married Katharina Blumer from Glarus and acquired Glarus citizenship.

In 1895 he became secretary of the Glarus government chancellery, and in 1896 clerk for the interrogation court. From 1908 to 1933 he was a part-time state archivist. Until then, the Glarus archive was not known to the public with its historical treasures. Frey undertook a thorough reorganization of the inventory. He had the necessary ventilation installed everywhere in order to protect the files in the dark, damp archive from mortification. He researched its contents, created an appropriate division and an initial registry and put the valuable old panners in a raised glass case. He also issued an inventory.

Through personal communications and historical articles published in the press, he drew the attention of scholars to the treasures that had hitherto been uncovered. The historians appeared - ahead of them the church historian Paul Wernle as well as the historian Ernst Alfred Stückelberg from Basel and the Glarus historian Pastor Thürer.

In 1928, Frey was entrusted with the continuation of the genealogy work by Johann Jakob Kubly-Müller. He published an overview of the holdings of the State Archives in printed form, created a collection of images on Glarus history and contributed to the publication of the Glarus flag book (1928). For a time, Frey served the Protestant parish of Glarus as bailiff. In the wider public he participated in various social and economic endeavors; so he was one of the co-founders of the anti-alcohol association of Glarus.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Biographical Lexicon of Deceased Swiss Volume 2, 1948, p. 383.