Karl Zay

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Karl Zay (also Carl ; * July 8, 1754 in Arth ; † May 15, 1816 in Schwyz ) was a Swiss doctor and politician .

Life

Zay came from a family of country people that can be traced back to a Jost Zay mentioned in 1353 . His father was the doctor Johann Karl Jakob Zay (1721–1795). He completed the grammar school classes at the Jesuit College in Lucerne before studying medicine at the universities of Strasbourg and Basel from 1779 to 1781 . He graduated with the doctorate to Dr. med. from. Already during his studies he devoted himself to politics. In 1779, 1785 and 1786 he was the ambassador of the Schwyz estate to the annual accounting statutes in Ticino and Gaster .

After returning to his homeland, he became a councilor in Schwyz in 1786 and a member of the council of war in 1798 . During the Helvetic era , he took over the post of canton judge in the new canton of Waldstätten from 1798 and 1799 . From 1801 to 1808 he was the delegate of the Diet and, in 1802, secretary to the first Landammann of Switzerland, Alois von Reding in Bern , who was overthrown that same year. Subsequently, he was a participant in the Helvetic Consulta in Paris . Returned from there in 1803 he was bag master of the canton of Schwyz and also president of the Schwyz constitutional commission. In 1808 he gave up the post of sack master. After that he was provincial governor from 1809 to 1811 .

In addition to his political activities, Zay is known as a chronicler of the Goldau landslide . In the so-called rubble book , he recorded the events with a description and maps. He is said not to have witnessed the landslide because he was in Schwyz at the time, but eyewitnesses gave him a detailed description of the event.

From 1781 Zay was married to Maria Katharina von Weber, the daughter of the officer Franz Dominik von Weber . He was the brother-in-law of the politician Franz Xaver von Weber . Zays Act is therefore in the family archive today by Weber in the State Archives Bern kept. The politician Karl von Zay emerged from his marriage to Weber . In 1808 he was married to Katharina Ab Yberg in his second marriage. Through these marriages he is said to have significantly expanded his fortune.

Works

  • Karl Zay: Goldau and its region, how it was and what it has become. New edition. Cantina-Verlag, Goldau 2006.

literature

  • Jürg Auf der Maur: Perseverance and departure. The career of the Schwyz politician Karl Zay (1754–1816) and her financial background , University thesis, Bern 1989.
  • Jürg Auf der Maur: Interest - Debt - Business Cycles: The Assets of Karl Zay: A Contribution to the Social and Economic History of the Old Country of Schwyz at the Time of the Helvetic and Mediation . In: Der Geschichtsfreund , Volume 143 (1990), pp. 165–230.
  • Hans-Uli Feldmann: The Goldau landslide in 1806 . In: Cartographica Helvetica 2007, pp. 47–52.
  • Jürg Auf der Maur: Carl Zay: Doctor, politician and writer: a search for clues on the 200th anniversary of the death of the most famous Arther . In: Communications from the Historical Association of the Canton of Schwyz , Volume 108 (2016), pp. 131–155.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Horat: Zay. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 3, 2014 , accessed April 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Karl Zay: Goldau and its region, as it was and how it has become. In drawings and descriptions to support the remaining sufferers , Zurich 1807 (reprint: Cantina, Goldau 2006).
  3. ↑ List of Deposita the family archive of Weber in the State Archives of Bern , p.5 (accessed on 26 April 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Zay, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zay, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Arth
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1816
Place of death Schwyz