Otth (patrician family)

Heinrich Otth (1593–1629), Portrait of Bartholomäus Sarburgh (1621).

The Otth family was a Bernese patrician family that had owned the city of Bern's citizenship rights since 1617 and belonged to the guild society of butchers . The family died out in 1874 with Heinrich Gustav Otth.

The Otth were originally citizens of Basel . The scribe Heinrich Otth (II.) (1593–1629) came from Basel to Bern and in 1617 received the Bernese citizen law. He accepted the society's room law for butchers . In 1618 he married Susanna Blauner. Otth worked as a substitute for Seckelschreibererei. His son Heinrich Otth (III.) Was also active in the Seckel writing business. He in turn had three sons: Andreas Otth (1647–1702), pastor, Hans Jakob Otth (1649–1713), magistrate and Hans Heinrich (1651–1719), also pastor. The next generations produced more clergymen, magistrates and officers (Savoy, Holland, Piedmont). The Otth gave the Venner to butchers twice .

people

• Johann Heinrich Otth (1651–1719), philosophy professor in Lausanne and pastor in Höchstetten.
• Hans Jakob Otth (I.) (1649–1713), of the Grand Council, Landvogt zu Erlach, Kirchmeier von Bern and Sechzehner to butchers
• Hans Heinrich Otth (I.) (1651–1719), professor in Lausanne, pastor in Rüegsau and Grosshöchstetten.
• Hans Jakob Otth (II.) (1680–1763), officer in Holland, bailiff of Wangen, small council, lord and Böspfenniger, builder of council, Venner.
• Andreas Otth (1685–1765), goldsmith
• Paul Friedrich Otth (1731–1813), governor of Payerne, governor of Schwarzenburg
• Hans Heinrich Otth (II.) (1727–1813), salt cashier, mayor of Burgdorf, Kleiner Rat, Venner.
• Albrecht Ludwig Otth (1175–1852), Oberamtmann von Büren, Government Councilor, Governor in Fraubrunnen, President of the Helvetic Society
• Carl Adolf Otth (1803–1839), doctor and naturalist.
• Heinrich Gustav Otth (1806–1874), mycologist, Ultimus.

literature

• Rudolf Fetscherin: Fragments from the life of an honest man . In: Berner Taschenbuch, Vol. 4, 1855, pp. 100-114 doi : 10.5169 / seals-119319
• Eduard Fischer : Gustav Otth, a Bernese mushroom researcher. 1806-1874 . In: Communications from the Natural Research Society in Bern 1909, pp. 91–122.
• Albrecht Rudolf Rüetschi : Johann Heinrich Otth (1651-1719) . In: Collection of Bernischer Biographien, Bern, Vol. 2 (1896), pp. 255–258.

Web links

Commons : Otth family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Holdings in the burger library in Bern
• Otth coat of arms on chgh.ch