Leo Weisz (historian)

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Leo Weisz (born June 19, 1886 in Barcs , Austria-Hungary (now Hungary ); † December 24, 1966 in Zurich ; from Siklós (Austria-Hungary, now Hungary), from 1946 resident in Zurich) was a Swiss economist and historian Hungarian- Transylvanian origin.

Life

Weisz was born as the eldest son of the wealthy timber industrialist Moritz Weisz and Franziska nee Mauthner. The family descends from the father of the Kronstadt city ​​judge Michael Weiss ; the Magyarization of the name to «Weisz» only took place when Leo Weisz's father was married to a Hungarian woman. Leo Weisz grew up with a brother and a sister in Kronstadt and from 1890 in Budapest . After the early death of his father in 1891, two uncles took care of him, who let him declare of age prematurely so that he could take over the management of his father's company when he was only 16 years old. Nevertheless, he made, himself a Reformed denomination , a high school education at the Cistercian college in the Hungarian episcopal city of Pécs . He then studied forest science and economics in Budapest, Vienna , Munich , Nancy , Paris and Grenoble . From 1910 to 1913 he studied law and economics, first at the ETH Zurich , then at the University of Zurich with Heinrich Sieveking and Gottlieb Bachmann . In 1914, he was there with a dissertation on forestry in Hungary in economics doctorate .

During the First World War he did military service as a sapper - lieutenant in Austria-Hungary, most recently on the staff of Field Marshal August von Mackensen . He was seriously wounded on the Russian front in Galicia in March 1915 and was taken prisoner by the French towards the end of the war, from which he was able to escape. In April 1919 he was appointed as engineer - Captain demobilized .

Because of the political upheavals in which his homeland had fallen to Romania , he was unable to take on the forestry life task that was intended for him, he returned to Zurich in 1919 and studied mathematics at the University of Zurich from 1920 to 1922 (without a degree). At the same time he worked as a freelance journalist and from 1922 as a freelancer for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . As a private scholar, he published on Swiss and Zurich history , v. a. on the Zurich Reformation , cartography and economic and industrial history .

The targeted habilitation at ETH Zurich failed for obscure reasons. Weisz turned down three appointments to Eastern European universities. He was a member of the Zwingliverein, in whose magazine Zwingliana he published frequently, and was editor of the Rosa-Ritter-Zweifel Foundation.

From 1953 he was completely tied to his office because of severe arthritis , which he attributed to his war injury, but continued to research despite increasing pain. On the morning of Christmas Eve 1966, six months after his eightieth birthday, he was redeemed.

Honors

Publications (selection)

The thorough bibliography index of the work of Leo Weisz (1886–1966) by Marianne Müller, published in 1970 by the Research Center for Legal History at the University of Zurich, lists 21 independent publications, 584 in the NZZ, 23 in other daily and weekly newspapers and 75 in Journals and yearbooks, thus over 700 publications. There are also eleven publications as editor and 55 reviews of his works.

Weisz also wrote extensive anniversary publications on companies, e.g. B.

Private

Weisz had been married to Cachin (1885–1967), born in 1923, who died just a month after him on January 31, 1967, and had a daughter (Anny Nabholz-Weisz) and a son (Heinz Weisz-Prytz) with her ).

literature

  • Leonhard von Muralt : Leo Weisz. For the 70th birthday. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 19, 1956, morning edition, sheet 2.
  • Kurt Müller : Prof. Leo Weisz 80 years old. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. June 19, 1966, Sunday edition, sheet 7.
  • Edmund Richner : Leo Weisz. On the death of the Zurich historian. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 27, 1966, morning edition, sheet 5.
  • Wilfried Spinner: Funeral service for Prof. Dr. Leo Weisz. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 29, 1966, morning edition, sheet 2.
  • Karl Reinerth : Professor hc Dr. Leo Weisz †. In: Transylvanian newspaper . March 15, 1967, p. 6.
  • Hanno Helbling : Memorial sheet for Leo Weisz. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 24, 1967, Christmas edition, sheet 4.
  • Heinrich Grossmann: Prof. Dr. Leo Weisz †. In: Swiss journal for forestry. Vol. 118, 1967 (archived in the E-Periodica of the ETH Zurich ).
  • Conrad Ulrich: Leo Weisz, June 19, 1886–24. December 1966. Zürcher Taschenbuch on the year 1969, pp. 1–7.
  • Marianne Müller: Directory of the work of Leo Weisz (1886–1966) (with a foreword by Karl Siegfried Bader ). Research Center for Legal History at the University of Zurich (Ed.), Zurich 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Reinerth : Professor hc Dr. Leo Weisz †. In: Transylvanian newspaper . March 15, 1967, p. 6.
  2. ↑ a b c Wilfried Spinner: Funeral service for Prof. Dr. Leo Weisz. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 29, 1966, morning edition, sheet 2.
  3. ^ A b Leonhard von Muralt : Leo Weisz. For the 70th birthday. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. June 19, 1956, morning edition, sheet 2.
  4. ↑ a b c d Edmund Richner : Leo Weisz. On the death of the Zurich historian. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 27, 1966, morning edition, sheet 5.
  5. ↑ a b Eduard Briner: The life's work of Leo Weisz. Bibliographical overview. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. April 29, 1975, p. 34 (review).
  6. ^ Marianne Müller: Directory of the work of Leo Weisz (1886–1966) (with a foreword by Karl Siegfried Bader ). Research Center for Legal History at the University of Zurich (Ed.), Zurich 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Weisz, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcs , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1966
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland