Gottlieb Ludwig Lauterburg

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Gottlieb Ludwig Lauterburg (born December 15, 1817 in Bern ; † September 3, 1864 there ) was a Swiss politician and journalist . From 1857 to 1860 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of a lawyer graduated from private school and then from high school in Bern. From 1837 to 1841 Lauterburg studied theology at the University of Bern . He then went on to study with the historian Louis Vuillemin and the Reformed theologian Alexandre Vinet in Lausanne . From 1841 he had various vicariates , from 1844 he worked for four years as a teacher in the orphanage of the civic community in Bern . In 1848 Lauterburg went on an educational trip to Munich , Vienna and Berlin . In 1851 he was co-founder of the newspaper Berner Bote and from 1854 its editor-in-chief .

Lauterburg initially represented moderately liberal, then conservative views. In 1850 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern and in 1852 to the City Council of Bern . He ran successfully in the National Council elections in 1857 and represented the Mittelland constituency , three years later he was not re-elected. Lauterburg held various school and church offices in Bern. He was co-founder and president of the Historical Society of the Canton of Bern , collected pamphlets and wrote historical and biographical treatises. From 1852 he published the Berner Taschenbuch .

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