Gernler

Gernler is the name of a Basel family of academics who have been living in Basel since the 14th century and which provided numerous clergy and civil servants in the 16th to 18th centuries.

Gernler is the family name of the following people:

• Johann Gernler (clergyman) (1583–1656), clergyman
• Johann Heinrich Gernler (clergyman) (1664–1747), Swiss clergyman
• Johann Heinrich Gernler (City Secretary) (1672–1773), Swiss civil servant
• Johann Heinrich Gernler (historian) (1727–1764), Swiss historian
• Karl Heinrich Gernler (1811–1880), painter and lithographer
• Lukas Gernler (1625–1675), theologian and university professor
• Peter Franz Ludwig von Gernler (1767–1850), Royal Bavarian Chamberlain and First Lieutenant
• Theodor Gernler (1670–1723), theologian, pastor and educator

literature

• Carl Roth: family tables of some extinct Basel scholar families . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 19 (1921), pp. 195–198 ( digitized version )
• Günther von Gernler: The story of the (von) Gernler family from Basel: written on the basis of documentary evidence and traditional records . 1952

Web links

• Excerpt from the Gernler tribe, early generations (PDF; 19 kB)
• Excerpt from the Gernler family (PDF; 29 kB)