Paul Usteri

Paul Usteri (born February 14, 1768 in Zurich ; † April 9, 1831 ibid) was a liberal Swiss publicist and politician , doctor and botanist. Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Usteri ".

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Paul (originally Paulus) Usteri was the eldest son of the pedagogue Leonhard Usteri (1741–1789). He was a doctor and held the office of a Swiss Council of State .

Usteri made great contributions to the development of press freedom in Switzerland . I.a. he was editor of the magazines Klio and Der Schweizerische Republikaner (1798–1803; most recently under the title "Der Republikaner"), in which the principles of the Helvetic Republic were set out. He owed his knowledge of the revolutionary development in France to his contacts with many contemporaries who, like himself, were politically committed to the revolution (including Johann Georg Kerner , Konrad Engelbert Oelsner , Karl Friedrich Reinhard ). Years of political correspondence connected him with the Salonnière Anna Maria Rüttimann .

On September 5, 1792 he was admitted to the Leopoldina and received the academic surname Acarnan V.

From 1792 to 1801 Usteri published the Annalen der Botanick (from the eighth edition: Annalen der Botany ) as a botanist , in which numerous new plant species were described.

Shortly before his death, Usteri was elected to succeed Hans von Reinhard in the government of the Canton of Zurich. However, he died before he could take office as Mayor of Zurich.

Usteri left behind one of the three largest collections of French revolutionary pamphlets in the world . It is now in the possession of the Zurich Central Library and comprises around 7500 brochures, which are grouped under the shelf mark “Usteri” and are fully recorded in the online catalog.

Honors

The plant genus Usteria Willd is named after Usteri . from the nugget family (Loganiaceae).

literature

Wilhelm Oechsli : Usteri, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 399-408.
Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 239 digitized .

Individual evidence

↑ Erich Pelzer: The return of the Girondi hero. German intellectuals as cultural mediators between Germany and France during the French Revolution . Bouvier, Bonn 1998, p. 292-298 .
↑ Annals of Botany, ed. by Dr. Paulus Usteri, in the Biblioteca Digital of the Real Jardín Botánico Madrid
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Usteri in the catalog of the German National Library

Collection of French revolutionary pamphlets in the Old Prints and Rare Department of the Zurich Central Library

Katja Hürlimann: Paul Usteri. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Member entry of Paulus Usteri at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 22, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans von Reinhard	Mayor of Zurich 1831	Hans Konrad von Muralt

personal data
SURNAME	Usteri, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Usteri, Paulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	liberal Swiss publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1831
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Erich Pelzer: The return of the Girondi hero. German intellectuals as cultural mediators between Germany and France during the French Revolution . Bouvier, Bonn 1998, p. 292-298 .

[Annalen-2] Annals of Botany, ed. by Dr. Paulus Usteri, in the Biblioteca Digital of the Real Jardín Botánico Madrid

[Burkhardt_2018-3] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .