Gertrud Züricher

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Gertrud Züricher (born January 13, 1871 in Bern ; † August 13, 1956 there ; resident in Burgdorf ) was a Swiss artist and folklorist .

Life

Gertrud Züricher trained as a secondary teacher and drawing teacher at the Bern Art School. From 1896 to 1926 she was a teacher at the municipal girls' school in Bern and, in 1899, made silhouette postcards with subjects from the city of Bern.

In addition to her professional activity, Zurich devoted herself to botanical , folklore and historical studies. She created an extensive herbarium and compiled the dialectal plant names, collected Swiss nursery rhymes and, based on the research of her great-grandfather Carl Friedrich Ludwig Lohner , dealt with the history of the city of Thun and her ancestors on her mother's side.

Züricher was a supporter of the abstinence movement and president of the Bernese abstinent section of the Swiss Teachers' Association. She also campaigned for the introduction of women's suffrage .

Her estate is in the Bern Burger Library and in the archive of the Swiss Idiotikon .

Publications

  • [together with Mathilde Reinhard:] All kinds of superstitions from the canton of Bern. Juchli & Beck, Zurich 1904.
  • Children's song and children's play in the canton of Bern. Collected according to oral tradition. Helbig & Lichtenhahn, Zurich 1902 (Writings of Switzerland. Society for Folklore 2). - New edition under the title: Children's song and children's play in the canton of Bern. A book for mothers, teachers and kindergarten teachers. Good writings, Bern 1966.
  • Children's songs of German Switzerland. According to oral tradition, collected and edited. by Gertrud Züricher. Helbig & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1926 (Swiss writings. Society for Folklore 17).
  • Bernese games with flowers and other parts of plants. In: Festgabe für Samuel Singer , presented on July 12, 1930. Mohr, Tübingen 1930, pp. 29–39.
  • Swiss poetry by Albrecht von Haller to the present day. Selected by Gertrud Züricher. Huber, Frauenfeld 1944.
  • There was once. Family pictures from a lost time. Haupt, Bern [1950?].

Editing:

  • Carl Friedrich Ludwig Lohner: From women's life in old Thun. Baumann, Bern 1933.
  • Carl Friedrich Ludwig Lohner: Chronicle of the city of Thun. Haupt, Bern 1935.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gertrud Züricher  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrud Züricher: Lack of Muse. In: Schweizer Erziehungs-Rundschau 6, 1933/1934, p. 9 f.
  2. ↑ Miscellaneous. In: Schweizerische Lehrerinnenzeitung 3, 1898/99, p. 53.
  3. ^ Gertrud Züricher: Plant names in the Canton of Bern. In: Swiss Archives for Folklore 41, 1944, pp. 161–175.
  4. ^ Gertrud Züricher: Festive occasions in old Thun. In: Swiss Archives for Folklore 33, 1934, pp. 45–62.
  5. ^ Berne abstinent section. In: Schweizerische Lehrerinnenzeitung 4, 1899/1900, p. 112.
  6. ↑ Gertrud Züricher's estate in the Bern Burger Library .
personal data
SURNAME Züricher, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1956
Place of death Bern