Julia Gauss

Julia Gauss (born February 19, 1901 in Liestal ; † December 4, 1985 in Wilchingen ) was a Swiss educator and historian .

Life

Julia Gauss was the daughter of the Liestal pastor and local historian Karl Gauss and granddaughter of the architect Hermann Rudolf Gauss . She attended the Liestal district school and then the girls' high school in Basel . After aborting a natural science degree in Geneva , she studied history and languages ​​in Berlin and Basel . In 1931 she was with a dissertation on "The methodological basis of Goethe's historical research" Dr. phil. PhD . From 1927 until her retirement in 1961, she worked as a teacher at the Basel girls' high school .

Alongside and afterwards, she conducted academic studies in the areas of medieval church and philosophy history, Swiss history and European history of the interwar period.

The unmarried Julia Gauss had several bequests in her will for educational and scientific purposes. A street in Basel is named after Julia Gauss.

Honors

• 1968 Dr. theol. hc from the University of Zurich
• 1979 Science Prize of the City of Basel

Fonts (selection)

• The methodological basis of Goethe's historical research , Ansbach 1934 (dissertation).
• (with Alfred Stoecklin ) Mayor Wettstein. The man, the work, the time , Basel 1953.
• Goethe Studies , Göttingen 1961.
• Johann Rudolf Wettstein's Diarium 1646/47 , Bern 1962 (edition).
• East and West in the Church and Papal History of the 11th Century , Zurich 1967.
• Albert Oeri's critical reflections on European politics of his time. On the 100th birthday of Albert Oeri, editor-in-chief of Basler Nachrichten, Sept. 21, 1975, Basel 1975

Essays

• About the causes of the Baselbieter Peasant War of 1653 , in: Baselbieter Heimatbuch VI (1954), pp. 162–192.
• A second visit to London by the Schaffhausen town clerk Dr. J. Stokar 1658–1659 , In: Swiss Journal for History 7 (1957), p. 210ff. ( Digitized version )
• Anselm of Canterbury. On the encounter and discussion of religions, In: Saeculum 17 (1966) pp. 277–363.
• Seven letters from Franz Buchser from the United States (1866/1867) to Federal Councilor Jakob Dubs. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 72, 1972, pp. 307-318. ( Digitized version )
• For the determination and origin of the Basel Golden Altarpiece. Eine Hypothese, In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 81, 1981, pp. 5-24. ( Digitized version )
• Philosophy in Switzerland, in: Gymnasium Helveticum 1 (3) (1947), pp. 122–124. ( Digital )

literature

• Julia Gauss, Dr. phil., Dr. theol. hc 1901–1985 , 1985 (funeral speech).
• Eduard Vischer: Julia Gauss , in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 1987, pp. 161–182 (with list of publications) ( digitized version )

Web links

• Michael Raith : Gauss, Julia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Julia Gauss in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
• Publications by Julia Gauss in the Opac der Regesta Imperii