Henri Moser (explorer)

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Henri Moser (born May 13, 1844 in Saint Petersburg as Georg Heinrich Moser ; † July 15, 1923 in Vevey ; authorized to reside in Schaffhausen and Neuhausen am Rheinfall ) was a Swiss explorer , businessman, art collector and patron .

Life

Henri Moser was born on May 13, 1844 in Saint Petersburg as the son of the industrialist Heinrich Moser . In 1848 he came to Switzerland and spent his childhood in Schaffhausen and at Schloss Charlottenfels in Neuhausen am Rheinfall. He received private tuition and attended boarding schools in western Switzerland . In 1887 he married his niece Marguerite Schoch.

At the age of twenty, under pressure from his father, he left Switzerland to work in his watch manufacture in Russia . At 23 he broke up with his father and began his adventurous life in Central Asia . On his travels he brought together extensive collections of works of art, hunting trophies, weapons and other items, which he showed at exhibitions throughout Europe. After his return to Switzerland, he bought back his parents' residence, Schloss Charlottenfels in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, from his assets.

In 1914 he donated his extensive "Oriental Henri Moser Charlottenfels Collection" to the Historical Museum in Bern with the obligation to maintain and exhibit it. The then director Rudol Wegeli signed the donation agreement. Henri Moser donated 100,000 francs for the necessary cultivation and maintenance. In the same year he was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern and an honorary citizen of the city of Bern.

In 1919 he donated the Löwenstein estate and the Charlottenfels estate in the Neuhausen community to the canton of Schaffhausen for the purpose of setting up an agricultural winter and housekeeping school. In 1925 the agricultural school of the canton of Schaffhausen was established. Henri Moser died of pneumonia on July 15, 1923 in Vevey.

He and his father received an honorary grave from the city of Schaffhausen for the Moser family at the Schaffhausen forest cemetery .

Publications

  • À travers l'Asie Centrale: La steppe Kirghize, le Turkestan Russe, Boukhara, Khiva, le pays des Turcomans et la Perse. Impression de voyage. E. Plon, Paris, 1885.
    • German: Through Central Asia: The Kyrgyz steppe, Russian Turkestan, Bochara, Chiwa, the Turkmen country and Persia. Travel directions. Leipzig 1888.
  • L'irrigation en Asie centrale: Etude geographique et économique. Société d'Éditions scientifiques, Paris 1894.
  • L'Orient inédit: À travers la Bosnie et l'Herzégovine. Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits et des grands express Européens, Paris 1895.

literature

  • Rudolf Zeller: The oriental collection of Henri Moser on Charlottenfels. Descriptive catalog of the weapons collection. Come on. KJ Wyss, Bern 1915.
  • Rudolf Zeller: The oriental collection of Henri Moser on Charlottenfels in the Historical Museum in Bern. In: The work. Vol. 9 (1922), Issue 10, pp. 189-204, doi: 10.5169 / seals-10639 .
  • Marguerite Moser: Une vie: Henri Moser, Charlottenfels. Payot, Lausanne 1929.
  • Paul Lichtenhahn: Dr. hc Henri Moser Charlottenfels, on his 100th birthday. Schoch, Schaffhausen 1944.
  • Robert Pfaff: Henri Moser Charlottenfels and his Oriental Collection , IN: Schaffhauser Contributions to History No. 62, Schaffhausen 1985.
  • Ernst J. Kläy: Oriental collection Henri Moser Charlottenfels. Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern 1991.
  • Roger Nicholas Balsiger, Ernst J. Kläy: With the Shah, Emir and Khan: Henri Moser Charlottenfels 1844–1923. Meier, Schaffhausen 1992, ISBN 3-85801-092-8 .
  • Roger Nicholas Balsiger:  Moser, Henri (Georg Heinrich). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 182-184 ( digitized version ).
  • Mandy Ranneberg, Nathalie Walter: Estate and Charlottenfels Palace . Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-03797-182-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Moser, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moser, Georg Heinrich (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss explorer, businessman, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1923
Place of death Vevey