Julie Heierli

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Julie Heierli

Julie Heierli-Weber (born July 14, 1859 in San Francisco ; † July 31, 1938 in Zurich ) was a Swiss milliner and costume researcher .

Life

Julie Weber was born in California in 1859, where her parents Julius Weber and Elize (née Niedermann) had emigrated. After the father's death, the mother returned to Zurich with the three children and opened a shop on Predigerplatz. Julie Heierle made an apprenticeship as a dressmaker and then opened at the Wühre a successful fashion business. In 1882 she married Jakob Heierli , who worked as a secondary school teacher in Hottingen .

Create

Heierli began to deal with Swiss peasant costumes and the closely related folk culture. She collected and viewed traditional costumes, pictures and texts, and met with people, especially women across the country and in the most remote areas, to show how traditional costumes had evolved and changed. As early as 1892, she made the proposal to set up a collection of costumes in the new Swiss National Museum . She took care of the procurement of the collection items, their maintenance and set up the collection.

In the annual report of the State Museum she wrote:

“100 years ago you could see people appear in their peculiar traditional costumes all over Switzerland. Today we can only find sparse remnants of this custom, the old costumes are almost extinct. It had to be seen as one of the tasks of the Swiss National Museum to collect, in this respect as well, what can still be found in the form of characteristic items of clothing from earlier centuries. It is high time, because hardly anything disappears as quickly as the traditional costumes of the people, the costumes of the patrician. "

- Julie Heierli (1898)

In the years 1922 to 1932 she published her five-volume main work Die Volkstrachten der Schweiz , which is still considered the most comprehensive and historically well-founded work on the subject.

Honors

The Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster in Zurich honored Julie Heierli on the occasion of the annual women's honor at Sechseläuten 2018.

Works

  • The Swiss costumes from the XVII. – XIX. Century after originals. Polygraphisches Institut, Zurich 1897/1898, doi: 10.3931 / e-rara-55369 .
  • The national costumes of central Switzerland. Rentsch, Erlenbach 1922 ( digitized version ).
  • Swiss traditional costume festivals. In: Heimatschutz / Patrimoine. Vol. 18 (1923), H. 1, pp. 13-15 ( digitized version ), H. 3, P. 46-48 ( digitized version ), H. 5, pp. 74-77 ( digitized version ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Stoll : D r Jakob Heierli. 1853-1912 . In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society . tape 95 , 1912, pp. 152–166 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  2. ^ Swiss National Museum Zurich: Annual Report. Vol. 6 (1897), p. 20 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  3. ↑ Ursula Karbacher: Julie Heierli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 4, 2007 , accessed November 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Heierli, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Julie (maiden name); Heierli-Weber, Julie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss milliner and costume researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1938
Place of death Zurich