Jon Mathieu

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Jon Mathieu at a presentation in the Engadin, August 2018.

Jon Mathieu (* 1952 in Bern ) is a Swiss historian .

activity

Jon Mathieu is emeritus professor for history with a focus on modern times at the University of Lucerne and is particularly known as a mountain researcher and historian of the Alps .

Mathieu comes from a Romansh family and grew up in Bern. He studied history, ethnology and psychology in Bern. In his extensive licentiate thesis and dissertation, he dealt with the Lower Engadine 1650-1800. The central source was the handwriting Chiantun Verd by Martin Peider Schmid from Ftan . Mathieu received his PhD in 1984 and his habilitation in 1991.

Mathieu was the founding director of the “Istituto di Storia delle Alpi” at the Università della Svizzera italiana , and held various visiting professorships and teaching positions, including from 2007 to 2012 at the ETH Zurich . His research focus is the history of the mountains. In 2011 he published a global history of the mountains in modern times. In 2015 his overview of the history of the Alps was published by Reclam-Verlag.

Mathieu's second research focus is the history of family and kinship. In addition, he published on theoretical questions in historical research. Since his retirement in 2018, he has been involved in short and long-term projects in these priority areas.

From 2010 to 2016 Mathieu was a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation .

He is married and has two grown children.

Awards (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Majestic mountains. The monarchy on the way to the Alps 1760–1910 . Jon Mathieu, Eva Bachmann, Ursula Butz. Here and Now, Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-03919-446-9 .
  • History of the landscape in Switzerland . Jon Mathieu, Norman Backhaus, Katja Hürlimann, Matthias Bürgi (eds.). Orell Füssli, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-280-05601-1 .
  • The Alps. Space - culture - history. Reclam, Ditzingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-011029-4 .
    • English (slightly changed): The Alps. An environmental history. Polity Press, Oxford 2019, ISBN 978-1-5095-2771-7 .
  • The third dimension. A Comparative History of the Mountains in Modern Times. Schwabe, Basel 2011.
    • English: The Third Dimension. A Comparative History of the Modern Era. The White Horse Press, Cambridge 2011.
  • History of the Alps 1500–1900. Environment, development, society. Böhlau, Vienna 1998.
    • English: History of the Alps 1500-1900. Environment, Development, and Society. West Virginia University Press, Morgantown 2009.
    • Italian: Storia delle Alpi 1500–1900. Ambience, sviluppo e società. Casagrande, Bellinzona 2000.
  • An agricultural history of the inner Alps. Graubünden, Ticino, Valais 1500–1800. Zurich 1992.
  • Farmers and bears. A history of the Lower Engadine from 1650 to 1800. Chur 1987.

Reviews

  • Anselm Tiggemann : Review by: Jon Mathieu: The third dimension. A comparative history of the mountains in modern times, Basel: Schwabe 2011. In: sehepunkte 13 (2013), No. 10, October 15, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Eugen Grimm: Martin Peider Schmid. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Jon Mathieu on the website of the University of Lucerne. (Version of August 14, 2018)
  3. ↑ In the beginning there was Hannibal. History of the Alps at a glance - University of Lucerne. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ derStandard.at - Austrian authors triumph in science books of the year . Article from January 29, 2016, accessed on January 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ VIEWPOINTS - Review of: The Third Dimension - Issue 13 (2013), No. 10. Accessed June 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mathieu, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern