Jacob Studer

Jacob Studer ; and Jacob Stauder (* 3. March 1574 in St. Gallen , † 4. February 1622 ) was a businessman and bibliophile collector in St. Gallen.

Life

Jacob Studer was the son of Christoph Studer (1549–1633), merchant and Säckelmeister and his wife Judith (born September 29, 1553 in St. Gallen; † December 9, 1601 there), a daughter of the merchant Bartholome Schobinger (1500–1585 ), born.

He worked as a merchant in St. Gallen and was elected to the city ​​council in 1609 , where he remained until his death. From 1611 to 1621 he was a marriage judge.

After death in 1615, as a librarian , he expanded the book inventory of the St. Gallen City Library, which goes back to the reformer Joachim Vadian , and increased it through city donors. From the spiritual-humanistic study library, he created a new kind of citizen's library for German-speaking Switzerland, which formed the core of the Vadian collection of the local civic community of St. Gallen and thus the counterpart to the monastic-Catholic abbey library of St. Gallen . He himself donated 100 selected volumes to the city library. The library created at the time is now in the Vadiana St. Gallen canton library .

Jacob Studer married Weibratha in 1597 (born March 11, 1568 in St. Gallen; † unknown), a daughter of Melchior Rothmund († 1597), city ​​doctor and councilor in St. Gallen.

literature

• Rudolf Gamper (with the assistance of Gertraud Gamper) and Fredi Hächler: Sum Jacobi Studeri Sangallensis. The collection of the bibliophile businessman Jakob Studer (1574-1622) in the Vadiana . St. Gallen 2001.

Web links

• Marcel Meyer: Studer (Stauder), Jacob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .