Joseph Eutych Kopp
Joseph Eutych Kopp (born April 25, 1793 in Beromünster , † October 25, 1866 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss historian , poet and politician .
Live and act
Joseph Eutych Kopp, son of a smallholder family, first attended the local Abbey School in Beromünster , then the Lucerne Lyceum . From 1812 to 1814 he studied ancient languages at the University of Freiburg with Johann Leonhard Hug . From 1814 to 1815 he studied in Paris with his brother. Then he was a teacher in Aarau , Hofwil and Zurzach . From 1819 to 1865 he worked as a professor for ancient languages at the Lyzeum Lucerne. The theologian Johann Huber was among his students here .
From 1828 to 1831, Kopp was Lucerne Councilor, 1831 and 1841 Constitutional Council. From 1841 to 1845 he was a member of the conservative-democratic government council and president of the education council. Kopp also wrote poems and dramas . As a historian, he introduced exact and critical source research ; he rejected everything mythical, transfigurational and not verifiable in documents.
His comprehensive life's work was the documents on the history of the federal leagues and the history of the federal leagues , which showed a new perspective on the formation of the Confederation . In contrast to Johannes von Müller and other historical researchers, Kopp attached great importance to the original sources, which he constantly questioned in detail. He eliminated the popular elements of the liberation tradition such as the tell saga or the Rütli oath , he assessed the previously ostracized Habsburgs positively, polemic debates within and outside of scientific circles were the result.
In 1843 he was a co-founder of the Historical Association of the Five Places . He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Vienna and Munich and an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel . In 1852 he turned down an offer to Vienna . He had a close friendship with the historian Johann Friedrich Böhmer . He kept in touch with historians of his time on research trips to the archives.
literature
- Heidi Bossard-Borner: Kopp, Joseph Eutych. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kopp, J. Eutychius . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 442–444 ( digitized version ).
- Alois Lütolf : Joseph Eutych Kopp as professor, poet, statesman and historian. Franz Joseph Schiffmann, Lucerne 1868. Digital copy from the Bavarian State Library .
- Gerold Meyer von Knonau: Kopp, Joseph Eutych . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 685-690.
- Richard Feller , Edgar Bonjour : Historiography of Switzerland - From the Late Middle Ages to the Modern Times , Volume 2, Basel 1962 (2nd edition 1979), pp. 675–680.
- Marcel Beck : Kopp, Joseph Eutych. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 568 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kopp, Joseph Eutych |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kopp, Josef Eutychius (pseudonym); Kopp, Karl (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beromünster |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1866 |
| Place of death | Lucerne |