Josef Ignaz Amiet

Josef Ignaz Amiet , also Joseph Ignaz (born February 1, 1827 in Solothurn , † May 28, 1895 ibid), was a Swiss historian , state clerk and state archivist .

Amiet, who had to break off his history studies at the University of Bern in 1848 for financial reasons and then worked in state archives, published numerous papers on the history of Switzerland with a focus on the canton of Solothurn . Along with Friedrich Fiala and Jakob Amiet , he was one of the most important exponents of the “History Research Association of the Canton of Solothurn” (today the Historical Association of the Canton of Solothurn ). From 1857 to 1874 Amiet was secretary of the «General History Research Society of Switzerland», today the Swiss Society for History . From 1861 until 1895, the year of his death, he was state clerk and state archivist in Solothurn.

Josef Ignaz Amiet was the father of the painter Cuno Amiet (1868–1961).

Works (selection)

• History of Lorenz Arregger von Solothurn, slave in Algiers . Stämpfli, Bern 1874 (special print from: Illustrirte Schweiz.).
  • Later editions: Verlag A. Bollmann, Bern 1909 and 1920.
• The French and Lombard money usurers of the Middle Ages, especially in Switzerland . In: Yearbook for Switzerland. Story . tape 1-2 . S. Höhr, Zurich 1877.
• Solothurn in the Confederation . Zepfel, Solothurn 1881.

literature

• Hellmut Gutzwiller: Amiet, Josef Ignaz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Gerold Meyer von Knonau:  Amiet, Josef Ignaz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 771 f.

Web links

• Publications by and about Josef Ignaz Amiet in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library