Guy P. Marchal

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Guy Paul Marchal (born September 29, 1938 in Basel ; † March 3, 2020 ) was a Swiss historian .

His father was a Basel merchant who specialized in trading and importing silk. Guy P. Marchal studied medieval history at the University of Basel . He was there with the work The statutes of secular collegiate St. Peter in Basel doctorate . His academic teachers were Albert Bruckner and Werner Kaegi . He completed his habilitation in 1976 with the thesis “The pious Swedes in Schwyz. The 'origins of the Schwyz and Oberhasler' as a source of the Schwyz self-image in the 15th and 16th centuries "..

From 1984 he taught as an associate professor at the University of Basel, then from 1989 to 2003 as a full professor of general and Swiss history at the University of Lucerne . Marchal founded the Department of History in Lucerne and was the first dean of the humanities (today: cultural and social sciences) faculty at the University of Lucerne from 1993 to 1997 and 1999 to 2001. From 1998 to 2004 he was President of the Swiss Society for History . He retired on September 30, 2003, and was succeeded by Valentin Groebner at the University of Lucerne .

His main research interests included the history of ecclesiastical institutions, the history of mentality and historical anthropology as well as historiography , in particular the history of the formation of Swiss traditions. Marchal wrote many works on the general and Swiss history of the Middle Ages, on the reception of the Middle Ages and on the history of collegiate pens. In its Swiss history of use published in 2006 . Images of history, the formation of myths and national identity are about “complexes of ideas or images of history by the Swiss”, which still shape Swiss self-image today. In 2019 he published a description in which he dealt with the National Socialist past of a brother-in-law of his father by marriage.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Gustloff in the trash - a research thriller. Here and Now, Baden, 2019, ISBN 978-3-03919-498-8 .
  • Swiss history of use. Images of history, myth-making and national identity. Schwabe, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7965-2242-4 (2nd, unchanged edition, ibid 2007, ISBN 978-3-7965-2242-0 ).
  • Sempach 1386. From the beginnings of the territorial state of Lucerne. Contributions to the early history of the Canton of Lucerne. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel et al. 1986, ISBN 3-7190-0944-0 .
  • The pious Swedes in Schwyz. The “origins of the Schwyz and Oberhasler” as a source of the Schwyz self-image in the 15th and 16th centuries (= Basel Contributions to the Science of History. Vol. 138). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel et al. 1976, ISBN 3-7190-0661-1 .

Editorships

  • with Robert John Weston Evans: The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States. History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins (= Writing the Nation. Vol. 8). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-57602-5 .
  • Boundaries and conceptions of space (12th – 20th centuries). = Frontières et conceptions de l'espace (XIIème - XXème siècles) (= Clio Lucernensis. Vol. 3). Chronos, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-905311-98-4 .
  • with Aram Mattioli : Invented Switzerland. Constructions of National Identity. = La Suisse imaginée. Constructions d'une identitée nationale (= Clio Lucernensis. Vol. 1). Chronos, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-905278-90-1
  • The secular collegiate pens of German- and French-speaking Switzerland (= Helvetia Sacra. Dept. 2: The collegiate pens. Vol. 2). Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel et al. 1977.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the NZZ.
  2. ↑ Guy P. Marchal: Swiss history of use. Images of history, myth-making and national identity. Schwabe, Basel 2006, p. 15.
  3. ↑ Review on Perlentaucher , accessed March 10, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Marchal, Guy P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marchal, Guy Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2020