Niklaus Anton Kirchberger
Niklaus Anton Kirchberger (* 1739 ; † September 27, 1799 in Gottstatt ) was a Swiss magistrate and economist from Bern .
Kirchberger was an officer in the Dutch service and became Herr zu Liebistorf through his marriage to Johanna von Diesbach in 1763 . In 1775 he became a member of the city council of Bern and in 1785 he became bailiff in Gottstatt. He was one of the founders of the Economic Society in Bern, which he later chaired. Committed to the Enlightenment , he was never active as a writer, but corresponded with numerous contemporaries across Europe. He was close friends with Jean-Jacques Rousseau as well as with Christoph Martin Wieland , Johann Caspar Lavater , Julie Bondeli , Niklaus Emanuel Tscharner , Vincenz Bernhard Tscharner , Jakob Sarasin and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin . Letters from him to Jakob Sarasin have been preserved in the Basel-Stadt State Archives.
Archives
- Letters 1785–1798, DQ 67 in the catalog of the Bern State Archives .
- NA Kirchberger provides a list of the tithe and feudal income belonging to him (1798.08.09), FA von Diesbach 346 in the catalog of the Bern State Archives .
Fonts
- Experiments over the Gyps , in: Treatises and observations collected by the Ökonomische Gesellschaft zu Bern, Jg. 1771, 2nd piece, pp. 31–68. doi: 10.5169 / seals-386692
literature
- Antoine Faivre: Kirchberger et l'illuminisme du dix-huitième siècle , La Haye 1966.
- Ludwig Lauterburg: Biographical Literature . Addendum to the Berner Taschenbuch for the year 1853, pp. 245–246.
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| SURNAME | Kirchberger, Niklaus Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss magistrate and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1739 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1799 |
| Place of death | Gottstatt |