Hans Nabholz

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Hans Nabholz, 1914

Hans Kaspar Nabholz (born June 12, 1874 in Bachs , Canton of Zurich , † May 5, 1961 in Zurich ) was a Swiss teacher, archivist, historian and politician.

life and work

Hans Nabholz was the son of a reformed pastor and dean of the Zurich regional church . In 1893 he gained in the urban school Winterthur the Matura . During his school days he was a member of the Vitodurania secondary school association, where he was nicknamed “Pax”. He then studied history and German in Zurich, Berlin and Paris . Nabholz received his doctorate in philosophy from Gerold Meyer von Knonau in Zurich in 1898 with a thesis on the peasant movements in Eastern Switzerland from 1524-25 . In 1905 he married Bertha Karrer, daughter of the notary Ulrich Karrer. The son Hans Nabholz (1906–1943), bearing his father's name, became a doctor.

After completing his doctorate, Nabholz initially worked as a secondary school teacher in Seengen in the canton of Aargau , and then at the Free Gymnasium in Zurich. In 1903 he became archivist at the Zurich State Archives , where he remained active until 1931. In 1911 he completed his habilitation and worked initially as a private lecturer, from 1924 as an associate professor and finally from 1931 until his retirement in 1945 as a full professor at the University of Zurich . He taught constitutional and economic history as well as historical auxiliary sciences . From 1938 Nabholz lived in Zollikon in the canton of Zurich.

During his work in the Zurich State Archives, Nabholz developed a lively editing activity. In 1906 he published the Zurich city books of the 14th and 15th centuries in three volumes . He later became head of the editing committee for the source work on the creation of the Swiss Confederation. As the only Swiss university professor for economic history, he later mainly worked on economic aspects of Swiss history in the Middle Ages and modern times. In addition, questions regarding the connection between the Swiss confederations and simultaneous German and European alliance policy were among his preferred areas of interest.

Nabholz belonged to several national and international specialist organizations, some in leading positions. From 1928 he was first president of the “ General History Research Society of Switzerland ”, from 1947 of the “ International Committee of Historical Sciences ”. In these functions, Nabholz, who was also politically active, advocated international understanding and promoted Switzerland's entry into the League of Nations . In domestic Helvetia, he tried to balance the conflicts between German-speaking and Romance-speaking Switzerland. In 1950 Nabholz was president of the international congress of historians that met in Paris. In this function, he pushed through the participation of a German historian delegation against considerable resistance.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ [[Peter Hauser (author) |]]: Directory of members of the generations 1864–1990. In: Alt-Vitodurania (Hrsg.): Festchronik 125 years Vitodurania. A souvenir book of the festivities of the 125th anniversary of Vitodurania from 8 to 12 September 1988 in and around Winterthur. Ziegler Druck- und Verlags-AG, Winterthur 1988, p. 82.
personal data
SURNAME Nabholz, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nabholz, Hans Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss teacher, historian, archivist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bach's
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1961
Place of death Zurich