Marco Jorio

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Marco Jorio (2007)

Marco Jorio (born September 17, 1951 in Goldau ; legal resident in Bellinzona ) is a Swiss historian . He was editor-in-chief of the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS) from 1988 to 2014.

Life

After attending grammar school in Zug , Jorio studied modern history, Swiss history and French literature at the universities of Friborg and Poitiers and graduated in 1976 with a licentiate . From 1976 to 1981 he was an assistant at the chair for modern history at the University of Freiburg. In 1981 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the end of the Principality of Basel .

Marco Jorio was party secretary of the CVP of the Canton of Zurich from 1982 to 1986 and President of the CVP of the city of Bern from 1992 to 1994 . He currently represents the Green Liberals in the Worb City Council and is also a member of the business audit committee .

Jorio is married and has three children. He lives in Rüfenacht in Bern .

Lexicographical activity

After he was appointed head of the project for a historical lexicon of Switzerland by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1985 , he took over the position of editor-in-chief on January 1, 1988.

In addition to his management function, he wrote over 70 articles for the HLS, from Andiau, Konrad Karl Friedrich, on spiritual defense and the Congress of Vienna to Züblin, Georg .

In September 2014, he commented on the future of reference works in the NZZ : Given the hegemonic position of Wikipedia , conventional printed conversational encyclopedias would no longer have a chance. Wikipedia itself still needs reliable reference works. Such "citable, trustworthy" reference databases "now have the opportunity to expertly deepen topics on the basis of the latest scientific research, to underlay your articles with written or multimedia sources, to trace research history and research debates and to create extensive (commented or uncommented) bibliographies, work and to offer image directories. ” Such reference works would not yield any financial profit. "Without public funding, there are no more reference works except Wikipedia."

After the publication of the 13th and last volume of the HLS in October 2014, he left the HLS at the end of the year. He has been chairman of the working group of the European biography portal since 2013 .

Publications (selection)

  • The fall of the Principality of Basel (1792–1815): The struggle of the last two Prince-Bishops Joseph Sigismund von Roggenbach and Franz Xaver von Neveu against secularization. Paulusdruckerei, Freiburg 1981 (= dissertation , University of Freiburg, 1981).
  • "Then hurry, o sons": Contributions to the military history of Zug (= contributions to the history of Zug. Vol. 11). Edited by the officers' society of the Canton of Zug. Kalt-Zehnder, Zug 1994, ISBN 3-85761-253-3 .
  • (Ed.) Switzerland and Europe: Foreign Policy at the Time of the Peace of Westphalia . Chronos , Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-905313-14-6 .
  • (Ed. With Cindy Eggs) In the beginning is the word. Lexicons in Switzerland . Hier + Jetzt , Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-03919-098-0 .
  • (Ed. With Bernd Roeck, Martina Stercken, François Walter, Thomas Manetsch) Swiss townscapes : urban iconographies (15th – 20th centuries) = Portraits de villes suisses: iconographie urbaine (XVe – XXe siècle) = Vedute delle città svizzere: l 'iconografia urbana (XV – XX secolo) / Ed .: Julia Burckhardt Bild, Elodie Le Comte and Thomas Manetsch. Chronos, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-0340-1085-6

Honor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Worb Online: Members of the authorities. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  2. ^ Magnolia International Ltd: Marco Jorio. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Short biography ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, Italian; 105 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asri-basilea.ch
  4. ↑ Full text search in HLS
  5. ↑ a b The “Historical Lexicon of Switzerland” and the media revolution, NZZ, September 14, 2014
  6. ^ Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and History. (No longer available online.) In: www.unibe.ch. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unibe.ch
personal data
SURNAME Jorio, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldau