Gottlieb Büchler

Gottlieb Büchler (born May 16, 1783 in Schwellbrunn ; † March 25, 1863 in Herisau ; resident in Schwellbrunn) was a Swiss historian and genealogist from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Gottlieb Büchler was a son of Bartholome Büchler, a small farmer and day laborer . In 1809 he married Maria Magdalene Schoch, daughter of Jakob Schoch. In addition to herding cattle, he attended school for three summer semesters. From 1807 to 1810, he worked as an instructor of Cantonal recruits - companies . Economic circumstances prevented acceptance of the captain's position . Later he was a leading historian and genealogist in Ausserrhoden. However, there was again a lack of funds for comprehensive studies. His five printed and the large number of unpublished works form valuable collections of material. In 1830 he was a co-founder of the first Herisau reading society . In 1831 he campaigned for a cantonal constitutional revision with the brochure Die Appenzell Ausserrhodische Landbuchsache . The pioneer for the ideas of the Enlightenment lived in poor circumstances and made his way as a newspaper reporter , publicist , lawyer and day laborer.

literature

• Gottlieb Büchler's estate in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden State Archives .
• Ernst H. Koller and Jakob Signer: Appenzell's coat of arms and gender book. Bern: Stämpfli 1926, p. 46. (with catalog raisonné)
• Thomas Fuchs: History of the Herisau community. Herisau: Appenzeller Verlag 1999, p. 272.
• Thomas Fuchs: Enlightenment and the public with the little man in the country - the beginnings of the reading society in Schwänberg. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher, Volume 131/2003 (2004), pp. 32–56. Web access via e-periodica.ch.
• Thomas Fuchs: Gottlieb Büchler (1783–1863): the poor man from Schwänberg. In: Appenzeller calendar for the year 2006, 285th year, 2006, pp. 90–97. Web access via e-periodica.ch.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Gottlieb Büchler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 7, 2018 , accessed August 10, 2020 .

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