Karl Samuel Wild

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Karl Samuel Wild (born April 13, 1765 in Bern ; † June 5, 1848 there ) was a Swiss civil servant , archivist and writer .

Life

Karl Samuel Wild comes from a family that produced many scholars, statesmen and soldiers. He was the son of the Saline Salt Director to Roche Abraham Friedrich David Wild (born April 8, 1737 in Yverdon ; † December 19, 1807 in Bern) and Maria Magdalena Rosselet (born January 29, 1738 in Bern; † May 4, 1803 ibid ).

He attended high school and the political institute in Bern.

From 1793 to 1798 he was secretary and member of the Saline Directorate, during which time he was appointed a member of the Grand Council of the City and Republic of Bern in 1795 . In 1798, when the French moved into Switzerland, the old Confederation was overthrown and the Helvetic Republic was formed . Karl Samuel Wild, who had since retired from civil service, was called back and was initially head clerk of the legislative council. In July 1800 he took over the Ministry of Arts and Sciences on a provisional basis when Minister Stapfer went to Paris as the Swiss envoy . Shortly afterwards he gave up the ministry again, but took it up again in October 1801 after a coup d'état dissolved the Swiss parliamentary statute and the constitution and government were arbitrarily changed and the responsible minister was dismissed. This takeover only lasted a short time. In 1802, as head clerk of the Senate, he kept the minutes of the Helvetian Notable Assembly, which met as the new Constitutional Council; until the Helvetic Republic was dissolved, he held various offices.

When the mediation constitution introduced by Napoleon rearranged the situation for its first daily statute in July 1803, it was also decided to entrust Karl Samuel Wild with the management of a new archive that was to be created to archive the files of the past centuries up to the present. Although the archivist had to be re-elected every two years according to the constitution, he retained this post until the end of his life; the organization of the Swiss central and mediation archive in the federal archive goes back to him. Karl Samuel Wild also worked as a secretary for various state commissions in his home canton.

From 1803 to 1831 he was a member of the Grand Council, from 1804 to 1831 clerk of the higher court and from 1804 to 1830 Bernese Grand Council.

Karl Samuel Wild was retained in his offices by various political parties, so that he became not just a cantonal but a federal civil servant who was in the federal service under various constitutions and governments for 50 years until his death.

He was also active as a writer and published " About the establishment of a fire insurance company in the Canton of Bern " and thus created a stimulating first work in Switzerland on this subject. He also wrote lyrical reports and epigrams in various Swiss muse almanacs and other scattered collections.

Karl Samuel Wild married on November 13, 1802 in Oberbalm Maria Elisabeth Meyer (* August 28, 1777 in Bern; † April 30, 1828 there), a daughter of the table maker and gravedigger Jakob Samuel Meyer (* April 28, 1750 in Bern; † May 9, 1806 ibid), the marriage was divorced in 1822. The marriage had two children.

Works

  • Regulations for the legislative council . Bern: National Buchdruckerey, 1800.
  • About the establishment of a fire insurance company in the Canton of Bern: three price papers received by the laudable economic society in Bern . Bern, printed by Emanuel Hortin 1789
  • Proclamation: the administrative chamber of the canton of Bern, to the parishes and pastors of the canton . Bern 1798.
  • The battle before Dorneck (1499): In three songs . Place of publication cannot be determined, publisher cannot be determined 1790

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt., 1850 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Wild, Karl Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss civil servant, archivist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1848
Place of death Bern