Gruner (Bernese family)
The Gruner family is a former citizen family from the city of Bern, originally from Zwickau (Saxony) and later based in Seengen .
history
The progenitor of the Gruner family is Johannes Gruner († 1568), conventual of the Johanniterhaus Küsnacht and, after the Reformation, pastor in Seengen. His two sons were also theologians. Johannes Gruner († 1587) was a preacher at the infirmary, pastor in Aarwangen and Kirchberg. His younger brother Samuel Gruner († 1625) was pastor in Kölliken, Aarburg, Seon, Seengen and finally dean of the Aarau class. The descendants of the two brothers formed the two main branches of the family, who worked in large numbers as clergy, notaries, clerks, officers and various craft professions such as bakers, butchers, tanners, shoemakers, watchmakers, belters, swordsmiths, nailers, plumbers and stonemasons . Correspondingly, branches of the Gruner belonged to the companies of Pfistern , butchers , blacksmiths , Ober-Gerwern , Mittellöwen , shoemakers , weavers , merchants and monkeys .
Members of the family branch owned the paper mill in Worblaufen near Bern and an estate in Zimmerwald in the 18th and 19th centuries .
people
- Johannes Gruner († 1568), conventual of the Johanniter Commandery Küsnacht, pastor in Seengen
Forging Branch †
- Josua Gruner (1572–1640), clockmaker, renewed civil rights in 1596, member of the Grand Council, Kirchmeier, time judge
Butchers Branch †
- Jakob Friedrich Samuel Gruner (1803–1888), engraver
Branch Ober-Gerwern †
- Samuel Gruner (1592–1649), member of the Grand Council, court clerk, Schultheiss zu Thun, Kastlan zu Wimmis
- Samuel Gruner († 1619), notary, renewed civil rights in 1591, member of the Grand Council, court clerk, bailiff of Wangen, governor of Payerne, customs officer at the department store
Branch of Shoemakers †
- Johann Rudolf Gruner (1680–1761), dean in Burgdorf , pastor, collector, chronicler
- Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner (1717–1778), natural scientist, archivist for the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
- Gottlieb Gruner (1756–1830), pastor in Herzogenbuchsee, Zimmerwald
- Johann Samuel Gruner (1766–1824), Swiss mining engineer and geologist
Branch merchants
- Samuel Gruner (1615–1691), hat maker, member of the Grand Council, Landvogt zu Erlach, Kornherr
- David Gruner (1686–1764), entrepreneur, owner of the Worblaufen paper mill , takeover of the Malacrida Bank, owner of the Märchligen estate
- Samuel Gruner (1715–1797), banker, trader, owner of a paper mill, gross woman, pen conductor in Zofingen, governor in the Lower Freiamt
- David Gruner (1722–1805), Lieutenant Colonel in Dutch service, Schultheiss zu Unterseen, customs officer
- Emanuel Gruner (1783–1863), owner of the Worblaufen paper factory, captain
- Emmanuel-Louis Gruner (1809–1883), professor of metallurgy in Paris, inspector general of the French mines, knight of the French Legion of Honor
- Paul Gruner (1869–1957), physicist
- Erich Gruner (1915–2001), historian, sociologist and political scientist
- Lucas Gilles Gruner (* 1940), Professor of Entomology in Tours
- Claude Gruner (* 1941), professor of mathematics
Archives
- Family archive Gruner in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
literature
- Jean Emmanuel Gruner: Tables d'ancêtres Gruner-Willm. Générations I à XIII , Paris 1982.
- Hans Gugger: Ittigen, a young community with an ancient history , Ittigen 1998.
- Christoph Zürcher: Gruner (BE). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
