Johann Siegmund Alioth

Johann Siegmund Alioth (born November 2, 1788 in Biel , † May 5, 1850 in Basel ) was a Swiss industrialist . For the first time on the European mainland he produced Schappe (foil silk) by mechanical means .

Life

The "Andlauerhof" in Arlesheim, Aliothsch residence

Johann Siegmund Alioth completed a commercial apprenticeship in Basel. Around the year 1818 he began weaving silk silk scarves and other articles from Mulhouse in the villages of the Vosges , for which he obtained the web from Gersau and other places on Lake Lucerne, where silk waste had been combed and spun by hand for a long time . Around 1820 he learned the mechanical production of Schappe, probably in England. In 1824 in Basel, in front of the Riehentor, he opened the first mechanical fine combing and spinning mill operated by Schappe on the mainland. Production was relocated to Arlesheim in 1830 . There Alioth bought the "Andlauerhof" and Birseck Castle in 1846 with the associated hermitage, and in 1847 Birseck Castle . After his death, his widow, Chrischona Alioth-Hornung, whom he married in 1913 and with whom he had five children, lived in the Andlauerhof for over 20 years. After Alioth's death, the widow bequeathed the castle and hermitage to her youngest son Julius Achilles Alioth (1822–1898).

literature

• Kaspar Birkhäuser : Johann Siegmund Alioth. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Hermann Wartmann:  Alioth, Johann Siegmund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 342.

Web links

• Alioth, Johann Siegmund in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
• Publications by and about Johann Siegmund Alioth in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Pedigree on the Stroux.org website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Canton of Basel-Country: Andlauerhof. Retrieved August 26, 2019 . 
2. ^ Ermitage Arlesheim Foundation: 1946, purchase of the Ermitage. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .