Max Mittler

Max Mittler (born May 24, 1924 in Aarau ; † January 11, 2004 in Zurich , legal resident in Döttingen and Baden ) was a Swiss author and publisher .

Life

Mittler attended the district school in Baden from 1937 to 1939 and then the grammar school in Zurich until 1943. He then studied history at the universities of Zurich , Paris and Madrid until 1949 and received his doctorate in 1949 .

Between 1949 and 1955 he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Luzerner Neusten Nachrichten , and from 1956 to 1966 he was the managing director of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association in Zurich. After this activity he took over the position of publishing director at Atlantis Verlag in Zurich and Freiburg in 1967 and worked there until 1980. In 1981 Mittler founded his own publishing studio in Zurich and then worked as a self- employed.

Mittler was the author and editor of cultural-historical publications, especially on the United States and Mexico as well as on the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century .

Publications

• Conquering a continent. The great departure in the American West. Atlantis, Freiburg im Breisgau / Zurich 1968, DNB 457611618 ; 3rd edition 1980, ISBN 3-7611-0359-X .
• The way to the First World War. How neutral was Switzerland? Small state and European imperialism. NZZ , Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85823-969-0 .

Web links

• Sarah Brian Scherer: Mittler, Max. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .