Johann Lukas Legrand

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Johann Lukas Legrand also Le Grand (born May 30, 1755 in Basel ; † October 4, 1836 in Fouday ) was a Swiss silk ribbon manufacturer and politician during the Helvetic Republic .

The Legrand family originally came from Tournay and fled to Basel for reasons of faith . Johann Lukas Legrand was first a theologian and ribbon manufacturer as well as a guild master at housemates before he took up the post of Basel bailiff in Riehen in 1792 . As a representative of Basel, he was repeatedly sent to the Federal Diet . He campaigned strongly for equal rights for urban and rural populations in Basel and contributed significantly to the peaceful revolution in Basel in 1798. On April 17, 1798 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Helvetic Republic and served as its provisional president. As director he supported Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's projects and protected Johann Caspar Lavater from French persecution in 1799. Disagreeing with the radical ideas of the patriots, Legrand resigned on January 30, 1799 and left politics. He moved his factory from Arlesheim to St-Morand near Altkirch in France. He later lived in Fouday and, with Johann Friedrich Oberlin, promoted the economic and educational development of the backward stone valley in the Vosges. His estate is in the State Archives of the Canton of Basel-Stadt.

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SURNAME Legrand, Johann Lukas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Grand, Johann Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician during the Helvetic era
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1836
Place of death Fouday