Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen

Pierre-Nicolas Legrand , portrait of Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen

Niklaus Friedrich Graf von Mülinen (born March 1, 1760 in Bern ; † January 15, 1833 ibid) was a Swiss historian and mayor of Bern .

Life

Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen was the son of the mayor Albrecht von Mülinen and studied at the University of Göttingen , where he met Christian Gottlob Heyne and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . From 1783 he became a close friend with Johannes von Müller . Mülinen was one of the initiators of the Unspunnen Festival of 1805. In 1811 he founded the Swiss History Research Society, which fell asleep again after his death. The library set up by his father and himself was one of the most valuable private collections in Switzerland at the time (more than 6,000 printed works and 800 manuscripts). After Mülinen rose to government before the transition into government, he became the main figure in Bernese mediation and restoration. Between 1803 and 1815 he served five times and between 1816 and 1826 six times as the Berner Amtsschultheiss. He provided his offices in the sense of a cautious development in the direction of legal equality and promoted the development of Switzerland towards a federal state .

Mülinen was raised to the status of Austrian count in 1816 and became a knight of the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle in 1817 .

Works

• Recherches historiques sur les anciennes assemblées des Etats du Pays-de-Vaud , Bern 1797 ( digitized ).
• Family history and genealogy of the Counts of Mülinen , Berlin 1844 ( digitized ).

So

• Wildenstein Castle (Veltheim)

literature

• Edgar Bonjour :  Mülinen, Nikolaus Friedrich Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 305 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg von Wyß :  Mülinen, Niklaus Friedrich Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 783-789.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Mülinen, Nikolaus Friedrich von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 320 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wolfgang Gresky: Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch. ISSN  0072-4882 , 20: 133-161 (1972).
• Stefan Howald (Ed.): "In small states, great thoughts die out for lack of great passions". Encounters with Johannes von Müller . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-601-6 .
• Beat Junker : Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen and the Bernese Oberland . In: Georg Germann (Ed.): Riviera on Lake Thun in the 19th century . Stämpli, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-7272-1165-2 , pp. 25-30.
• Frédéric-César de Laharpe: Supplément à la biographie de Mr Nicolas-Frédéric de Mulinen. Lausanne 1837 ( digitized ).
• Frédéric von Mülinen: The first Swiss history researching society 1811-1858 . In: Bern journal for history and local history. ISSN  0005-9420 , vol. 23 (1961), pp. 115-127, doi: 10.5169 / seals-244079 .
• FV: Schultheiss Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen. For the 100th birthday . In: The Bern Week in Words and Images , Vol. 23, 1933, pp. 23–24 ( e-periodica )

Web links

• Christoph Zürcher: Mülinen, Niklaus Friedrich von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

predecessor	Office	successor
Niklaus Rudolf von Wattenwyl	Schultheiss of Bern	Christoph Friedrich Freudenreich