Gottlieb Wüthrich

Gottlieb Wüthrich (born April 16, 1879 in Münchenbuchsee ; † December 16, 1946 in London ) was a Swiss electrical engineer , director of the London branch of the Oerlikon machine factory and an art and coin collector .

Gottlieb Wüthrich was born as the son of a station director of the Swiss Federal Railways. He completed an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer at the Burgdorf technical center and then worked for the Oerlikon machine factory from 1898. From 1899 he worked in the subsidiary in London, from 1921 as its director. He collected old Swiss coins that he recognized as historical sources, Celtic coins as well as Swiss coats of arms and prints by Matthias Apiarius . His coat of arms collection was sold immediately after his death, the numismatic collection Gottlieb Wüthrich was auctioned in 1971 and 1984. The Swiss Gutenberg Museum received the graphics of Apiarius as a deposit.

He also collected works by Swiss artists, such as Angelika Kauffmann .

portrait

• One-sided cast bronze medal, 113 mm, medalist: Emil Wiederkehr . Obverse: IN MEMORIAM GOTTLIEB WÜTHRICH / 1879 - 1946. Bearded bust with dress attached to the right

Publications

• Celtic Numismatics in Switzerland. In: Numismatic Chronicle 6. Series 5, 1945, pp. 1-33.

literature

• R. Wegeli: Obituary for Gottlieb Wüthrich. In: Swiss Numismatic Rundschau 33, 1947, pp. 55–56 (full text, with illustration of the medal) .
• Erich B. Cahn : Swabian-Alemannic pennies of the Middle Ages (Switzerland, Upper Alsace, Breisgau, Lake Constance, Augsburg). Gottlieb Wüthrich Collection. Coins and Medals AG Basel, auction catalog 45, 1971.
• Gottlieb Wüthrich Collection: coins and medals from Bern. Important special collection with many rarities from numerous well-known collections such as Iklé, Grossmann, Abt, Bachofen, Wunderly v. Muralt, Vicomte de Sartiges etc. Auction 14, Wednesday, November 7, 1984 in the Hotel Carlton Elite, Zurich. Spink & Son Numismatics, Zurich 1984.
• Angelika Kauffmann (1741–1807). Paintings, drawings, and etchings from the Gottlieb Wüthrich collection (1879–1946). Auction house Stuker Bern, Catalog Spring 2012, pp. 58–81 (PDF; 5.9 MB) ( Memento from August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).

Web link

• Martin Lory: Gottlieb Wüthrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .