Otto P. Clavadetscher

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Otto Paul Clavadetscher (born September 9, 1919 in Stein AR ; † March 27, 2015 in Trogen AR ) was a Swiss historian , high school teacher and lawyer .

Live and act

Otto Paul Clavadetscher was born in 1919 to Peter Clavadetscher and his wife Fanny, née Meier, in the hinterland of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . Nothing is known about his youth. He graduated from high school in Trogen in 1938 . He then studied history and German at the University of Zurich from the winter semester of 1938 to the summer semester of 1943 . In 1943 he received the diploma for the higher teaching post in history and German from the University of Zurich. Two years later he received his doctorate there with the work of Hans Nabholz on the history of the Cistercian abbey in Kappel am Albis . Clavadetscher had to interrupt his studies several times in order to do his active service.

During his studies he met his fellow student Jeannette von Tscharner, whom he married in 1946. The couple moved to Zuoz GR . There he took up a position as a teacher at the Lyceum Alpinum . The couple subsequently had four children. The family then moved to the lowlands. Clavadetscher taught from 1959 at the Mariaberg teacher training college in Rorschach and later until 1984 history at the St. Gallen Cantonal School . From 1963 the family lived in Trogen (Appenzell Ausserrhoden). In addition to his teaching activities, he worked as a part-time judge from 1965 to 1985. From 1980 to 1985 he was President of the Upper Court of the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden.

As a historian, he was interested in the Middle Ages. In the course of time he dealt with the Graubünden region , eastern Switzerland , the Lake Constance area , the state of Vorarlberg and, most recently, the Principality of Liechtenstein . Among other things, he wrote pioneering works on the history of the empire in the early Middle Ages. As a result, he was accepted as one of the few Swiss in the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (since April 1981). Furthermore, he wrote the Castle Book of Graubünden and wrote numerous constitutional and legal history texts.

For a long time Clavadetscher was active as an editor of documents and edited thousands of documents from parish, parish, monastery, city and state archives in Europe. He often received support from his wife. Since 1991 he has worked on several volumes of the Bündner Urkundenbuch . Since 1974 he has been the editor and later with Stefan Sonderegger , the city archivist of the St. Gallen community, co-editor of the St. Gallen document book Chartularium Sangallense - in this position he worked until his death. As part of his duties, he created registers and corrected proofs right up to the end. With his edition he made numerous sources on St. Gallen easily accessible to scientists.

In 1981 he became a corresponding member of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg . In 1989 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in law from the University of St. Gallen and was dedicated to Festschrifts in 1984 and 1994.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Churretian Reichsgutsurbar as a source for the history of the Treaty of Verdun. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. Vol. 70. Böhlau, Wien / Köln 1953, pp. 1–63 (also contained in Rätien im Mittelalter. 1994, pp. 114–176).
  • The constitutional development in Carolingian Raetia. In: Bündner monthly newspaper. Journal for Graubünden history, regional and folklore (Ed. Rudolf O. Tönjachen). No. 12, December 1954 (archived on e-periodica at ETH Zurich ).
  • The renunciation (renuntiatio) of exceptions in the Graubünden documents of the Middle Ages. In: Journal of Swiss Law . Book 3. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1958, pp. 101-138; The areas north of the Alps. Pp. 363–388 (also contained in: Rätien im Mittelalter. 1994, pp. 444–469).
  • The spiritual judges of the Diocese of Chur. At the same time a contribution to the history of Roman law in the Middle Ages. In: Ius Romanum in Helvetia. Vol. 1. Lichtenhahn & Helbing, Basel 1964.
  • Change of legal language in the 13th century. In: Festschrift Karl Siegfried Bader (Eds. Ferdinand Elsener, Wilhelm Heinrich Ruoff). Zurich 1965, pp. 85–100 (also contained in Rätien im Mittelalter. 1994, pp. 515–550).
  • with Werner Meyer: The Castle Book of Graubünden. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01319-4 .
  • Rhaetians in the Middle Ages: constitution, traffic, law, notary's office. Selected essays. Edited by Ursus Brunold, Lothar Deplazes. Celebration for the 75th birthday. Desertina, Disentis 1994, ISBN 3-85637-223-7 .
  • Graubünden document book. Volume 2, Bischofberger, Chur 2004.

literature

  • Entry Otto P. Clavadetscher. In: Jürgen Petersohn (Ed.): The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Konstanz working group for medieval history on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Volume 2). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 97-101 ( online )
  • Helmut Maurer (Ed.): Churrätisches and st. Gallic Middle Ages. Festschrift for Otto P. Clavadetscher on his sixty-fifth birthday. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1984, ISBN 3-7995-7028-4 .
  • Stefan Sonderegger: Otto P. Clavadetscher-von Tscharner (Trogen, 1919–2015). In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 142 (2015), pp. 194–195 ( digitized version )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Otto Paul Clavadetscher: Contributions to the history of the Cistercian abbey Kappel am Albis. Zurich 1946.
  2. ^ Otto P. Clavadetscher, Werner Meyer: The Burgenbuch von Graubünden, Orell Füssli, Zurich, Schwäbisch Hall 1984.
  3. ↑ Bündner Urkundenbuch in the State Archives of the Canton of Graubünden
  4. ↑ Chartularium Sangallense in the St. Gallen City Archives; Chartularium Sangallense in the Historical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen
  5. ^ Raetia in the Middle Ages. Contents. In: Liechtenstein National Library . See the review by Jürg L. Muraro, Peter Donatsch in: Bündner Monatsblatt. Journal for Bündner Geschichte, Landeskunde and Baukultur, Issue 5, 1995, pp. 419–424 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Clavadetscher, Otto P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clavadetscher, Otto Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, teacher and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Stone AR
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2015
Place of death Trogen AR