Marc-Antoine Pellis
Marc-Antoine Pellis ( Marc-Antoine-Samuel Conod ) (born June 30, 1753 in Romainmôtier , † March 7, 1809 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and politician.
Life
The son of pastor Jean-Henri and Marie Grobéty went on several trips to Europe and became tutor in Amsterdam. In 1786 he married Susanne, the daughter of the businessman Jean-Jacob Sulzer. In May 1791 their son Louis Rodolphe Pellis was born in Soveillame .
In 1791 he took part in the revolution banquets in the canton of Vaud and had to flee. After the sale of the Soveillame rule, he settled as a merchant in Bordeaux in 1793 , where he was trade commissioner of the Helvetic Republic from 1798–1801 .
During one of his trips to Switzerland, he set up a mechanical cotton spinning mill in St. Gallen . In 1801 he introduced the first spinning machine in Switzerland, a mule-jenny by the British inventor Samuel Crompton .
As a member of the Legislative Assembly and the Helvetian Senate, in 1801 he rejected the application for the connection of Vaud to Bern . In 1802 he was envoy to the Paris Consulta, 1806–1809 customs officer in Lausanne and 1808–1809 Vaudois Grand Council and Lausanne City Council.
Publications
- Élémens de l'histoire de l'ancienne Helvétie et du canton de Vaud . 2 vol., Lausanne 1806
Web links
- Nicole Staremberg Goy: Pellis, Marc-Antoine. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, link to pictures
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pellis, Marc-Antoine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Conod, Marc-Antoine-Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneurs and politicians |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romainmôtier |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1809 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |