Johannes Guler von Wyneck

Johann Guler von Wyneck (born October 31, 1562 in Davos , † February 3, 1637 in Chur ) was a Graubünden chronicler, officer and governor .

Johann Guler von Wyneck

Life

Johann Guler von Wyneck came from a Davos Walser family and was the son of Colonel and Davos Landammann Hans Guler von Wyneck and Anna Buol. As a boy in 1569 he accompanied his stepbrother Peter, who was elected vicari, to Valtellina for two years. On his return he attended the Latin school in Chur and then studied in Zurich (1574), Geneva (1580) and Basel (1582). Since he was elected land clerk in Davos in 1582 and later also regional ensign, he was unable to complete his studies. In 1583 he married Barbla von Perini for the first time. In 1587 he became governor of the Valtellina.

Ruins of the Wynegg castle

Guler's first wife died in 1586. In 1591 he married Elisabeth von Salis . Through this marriage, Johannes Guler came into possession of the Wynegg castle above Malans in 1602 . He made it his residence and took the name "von Wyneck". From 1592 to 1604 Guler was Davos Landammann and thus at the same time Federal Landammann of the Ten Court Association . Between 1600 and 1604 he took part nine times in diplomatic missions that took him to the Swiss Confederation , Paris, Venice and Milan.

Johann Guler von Wyneck promoted the conclusion of an alliance of the three leagues with Venice. In 1607 he became the commander of a Graubünden regiment to secure the border with Milan. A criminal court dominated by Spanish partisans sentenced him to death in Chur that same year. Later in 1607, a now Venetian-minded court rehabilitated him. Guler then retired from public policy for ten years; Not until 1618 did he take over an embassy to the French court in place of Captain Johann Flisch von Scheydt (1580–1654 Thusis) and was knighted and adorned with a "guldine ketti".

To escape the turmoil in Graubünden , he moved with his family to Zurich, which gave him citizenship in 1619. In 1620, as a colonel, he commanded the Bündner troops, which tried twice in vain to recapture the lost subjects. In the Prättigau uprising in 1622 Guler von Wyneck supported the resistance of the Prättigau against Austria. After that he only took part occasionally in embassies. In 1627 he moved to his seat in Chur, St. Margarethen, where he died on February 3, 1637.

Works

Title of Guler's Raetia ; Zurich 1616

Guler von Wyneck's achievements as a historian and cartographer are remarkable. His King Louis XIII. Dedicated Raetia: this is a detailed and true description of the three Loblichen Grawen Bündten and other Retische völcker is an extensive compilation of works by Bündner and federal chroniclers. It was published in Zurich in 1616, the first part describes the history of Graubünden up to the 15th century and follows the chronicle of Ulrich Campell , whose handwriting Guler had found in the Engadine and partially copied. The second part contains an unfinished description of Graubünden and its subjects with five "land panels". The chronicle was elaborately designed, appeared in folio format and contained five maps, the first detailed maps of Graubünden, many illustrations of coins and coats of arms. Battles, towns and family tables. Guler had used most of the woodcuts for other publications earlier. Today the “Raetia” is considered the most precious work of Graubünden historiography.

In the summer of 2009, Anton von Sprecher published a version that was rewritten and commented on in today's German. Guler used the excerpt from Ulrich Campell's two books of Rhaetian history Ex Huldrichi Campelli Historia Rhaetica, which he wrote himself, as the basis for his work . Libri duo and Aegidius Tschudis Uralt Rhetia.

In 1622 Guler's book Pündtnerischer Veranstaltungen repeated and increased deduction appeared , which primarily served to justify the Prättigau uprising.

literature

• Georg von Wyß:  Guler von Weineck, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 115-118.

Web links

Commons : Johannes Guler von Wynegg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Silvio Färber: Guler von Wyneck, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook of Graubünden History: Volume 4; Sources and materials; P. 239; Chur 2005
2. ↑ Southeast Switzerland  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Walser Museum