Memorabilia Tigurina
The Memorabilia Tigurina or Merckworthiness of the city and countryside of Zurich ... Including a gender, civil service and office book is a special encyclopedia that was first published in 1704 in Zurich by Johann Heinrich Bluntschli in one volume. It appeared in 1711 in the second, textually unchanged edition with other illustrations and in 1742 in the third, expanded edition with all the illustrations from the first and second edition.
Content and name
The Memorabilia Tigurina deal primarily with the area of the then city-state of Zurich and the topics of interest to city citizens. It is the first history of Zurich in alphabetical order. The name Tigurina goes back to Tiguri, the Latin name of the city of Zurich that has been used from the 16th to the early 18th centuries. The Gallo-Roman name Turicum only became known when a Roman gravestone was found on the Lindenhof .
precursor
The Enchiridium chronologicum Tigurino-Helveticum or Historisches Hand-Büchlein Zurich-Helvetischer Jahreszeit-histories, in it according to the order of the years everything ... in the place u. Zurich landscape ... strange things happened ... is presented by D. Gessner, published in Zurich in 1701, is slightly older, but essentially a tabular compilation.
Later editions of the Memorabilia Tigurina
The Memorabilia Tigurina was very popular because of its compactness. The name was therefore used repeatedly as the title of a Zurich encyclopedia in the Bluntschli tradition until the end of the 19th century. These new editions were in many private and public libraries - also and especially in the Zurich countryside, where otherwise only a few books apart from the Bible could be found.
It appeared one after the other:
- A. Werdmüller: Memorabilia Tigurina, or Curiosities of the City and Landscape of Zurich corrected, increased, and continued until now . Part I: Zurich 1780. Part II: Zurich 1790.
- JH Erni: Memorabilia Tigurina. New chronicle or continued peculiarities of the city and landscape of Zurich . Zurich 1820.
- F. Vogel: Memorabilia Tigurina or Chronicle of the Memories of the City and Landscape of Zurich . Zurich 1841.
- F. Vogel: The old chronicles or memorabilia of the city and landscape of Zurich from the earliest times to 1820 . Zurich 1845 (reprinted 1857).
- F. Vogel: Memorabilia Tigurina or Chronicle of the Memories of the Canton of Zurich 1840 to 1850 . Zurich 1853.
- G. von Escher: Memorabilia Tigurina or Chronicle of the Memories of the Canton of Zurich 1850 to 1860 . Zurich 1870.
Friedrich Vogel made a name for himself by publishing a supplement to the works of Werdmüller and Erni in 1841, re-editing the old chronicles (Bluntschli, Werdmüller, Erni), which had long since been out of print, in 1845, and then adding another supplement in 1853. The last publication under the name Memorabilia Tigurina was the supplement by Prof. G. von Escher, which followed on from Vogel's series. In summary, these editions published by Schulthess were also referred to as the "Vogel Chronicle".
Works in the tradition of memorabilia
Another volume from the series Historical-Geographical-Statistical Painting of Switzerland also belongs to the category of memorabilia :
- G. Meyer von Knonau: The Canton of Zurich, historically, geographically and statistically portrayed from the oldest times to the present. (Historical-geographical-statistical painting of Switzerland), 2nd edition. Part I: St. Gallen / Bern 1844; Part II: St. Gallen / Bern 1846.
Remarks
- ↑ also Hans Heinrich Bluntschli
- ↑ on the possible misinterpretation of the origin of the name see Tiguriner # Tiguri (ni) & Turicum for Zurich , there lit.