Helvetic Society
The Helvetic Society was a non-denominational Swiss association of enlightened and cross-cantonal-federal-minded people in the second half of the 18th and first half of the 19th century.
history
The society was founded in Schinznach-Bad in 1761 by a group around Isaak Iselin , Hans Caspar Hirzel , Joseph Anton Felix von Balthasar , Daniel von Fellenberg and Joseph Anton Siegmund von Beroldingen . Further members were Johann Georg Zimmermann , Salomon Gessner , Salomon Hirzel , Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli , Werner de Lachenlal , Wernhard Huber , Vincenz Bernhard Tscharner and Niklaus Emanuel Tscharner , Johann Rudolf Ulrich . From abroad, Prince Ludwig Eugen von Württemberg , Johann Georg Schlosser and Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel joined them. It was progressive men from the educated bourgeoisie and the aristocracy who felt the shortcomings of the outgoing ancien régime.
The new national self-confidence found its center in the Helvetic Society. In the most important nationwide association, in the spirit of the times (society movement), a friendship that transcended all borders, the development of a national feeling and federal cohesion were cultivated. The republican virtues should be further developed for freedom, equality and overcoming denominationalism ( religious tolerance ). The spiritual and moral education of the individual and the economic livelihood should be improved. This is where the idea of Switzerland transcending the separation of denominations and cantons arose.
The Helvetic Society was dissolved in 1848.
The New Helvetic Society builds on the ideals of the Helvetic Society, which was founded in 1914 shortly before the outbreak of the First World War in order to strengthen the unity between German- and French-speaking Swiss , which was at risk at the time .
Other members
- Johann Heinrich Fischer
- Abraham Emanuel Merry
- Alois Fuchs
- Karl Stephan Glutz-Ruchti (1767 President)
- Jost Bernhard Häfliger (Secretary 1810–1819)
- Cosmus Army
- Franz Jakob Hermann
- Josef Felix Ineichen
- Kaspar Koch
- Jeremias Lorza
- Johann Rudolf Meyer (1792 President)
- Joseph Rudolf Valentin Meyer
- Franz Bernhard Meyer von Schauensee (President 1796)
- Johann Melchior Mohr
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Albrecht Rengger
- Johann Heinrich Schinz
- Johann Melchior Schuler (Secretary)
- Franz Joseph Stalder (temporarily President)
- Philipp Albert Stapfer
- Johann Georg Stokar
- Ulysses von Salis-Marschlins
- Alois Vock (President 1826)
- Marquard Wocher
- Heinrich Zschokke (President)
literature
- Emil Erne : Helvetic Society. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 5, 2007 .
- Sigrid-Ursula Follmann: Image of society, education and gender order with Isaak Iselin in the late Enlightenment. Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6432-4 , p. 89 ( digitized version ).
- Peter Genner: The hosts of the Helvetic Society. The Schwachheim-Renner family as the owners of Bad Schinznach and their emigration to Bavaria. In: Argovia . 124/2012, pp. 126-179 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich Im Hof , François de Capitani : The Helvetic Society, Late Enlightenment and Pre-Revolution in Switzerland. 2 volumes. Frauenfeld / Stuttgart 1983.
- Karl Morell: The Helvetic Society, represented from the sources. Winterthur 1863.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Brockhaus multimedial 2010, article Helvetische Gesellschaft: “Swiss association founded in 1761 to bridge religious and cantonal differences; Dissolved in 1848. " - See Emil Erne: Helvetische Gesellschaft. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .: "Ended 1858".