Friedrich Salomon Vogelin

Friedrich Salomon Vogelin

Friedrich Salomon Vögelin (born July 26, 1837 in Zurich ; † October 17, 1888 there ) was a Swiss theologian , art historian and politician .

Life

Friedrich Salomon Vögelin came from a family of theologians in Zurich. After leaving school in Zurich, he studied theology at the University of Basel and attended lectures by the cultural and art historian Jacob Burckhardt . After studying art history in Heidelberg and Berlin , he found a job as a pastor in Uster , but was controversial due to his reform theological tendencies. After being employed as a lecturer in Swiss history in Küsnacht, he was appointed to the newly created chair for cultural and art history at the University of Zurich in 1870, together with Johann Rudolf Rahn . In addition, Vögelin, a supporter of the radical democratic movement since his time in Uster, was politically active. After the parliamentary elections in 1875 , he was the first workers' representative on the National Council until 1888.

Friedrich Salomon Vögelin campaigned for the protection of monuments and the maintenance of the national art heritage. Together with his friend Heinrich Angst , he campaigned for the creation of the Swiss National Museum . He wrote a large number of articles on art history, most of which were published in the New Year's newspapers of the Zurich City Library. It was also Salomon Vögelin who rediscovered the famous Holbein table on the screed of the former Zurich City Library, which is now kept in the Swiss National Museum as a deposit from the Zurich Central Library.

He found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery .

Works

• The wall paintings in the episcopal palace in Chur with the depictions of Holbein's death pictures: an art-historical investigation . Orell, Füssli & Comp., Zurich 1878 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )

literature

• Alexander Isler: Prof. Dr. Salomon bird. Life picture of a Swiss folk man , Winterthur: Siblings Ziegler, 1892.
• Gerold Meyer von Knonau :  Vögelin, Salomon - Anton Salomon - Friedrich Salomon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 143-154.
• Walter Betulius: Friedrich Salomon Vögelin 1837-1888. His contribution to Swiss intellectual life in the second half of the 19th century , Winterthur: PG Keller, 1956.
• Vogelin, Friedrich Salomon . In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Continued by Eugen Kuri. Second volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 1165.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Salomon Vögelin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Salomon Vögelin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature on Salomon Friedrich Vögelin in the Zurich Central Library
• Overview of the courses held by Friedrich Salomon Vögelin at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1871 to winter semester 1888)
• Markus Bürgi: Friedrich Salomon Vögelin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .