Peter Stadler

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Peter Stadler (born November 11, 1925 in Zurich ; † March 19, 2012 there ) was a Swiss historian .

His father was a doctor in Zurich and his mother was the sister of the composer Arthur Honegger . Stadler graduated from the free grammar school in Zurich from 1939 to 1945 and studied history, German literary history and art studies at the universities of Zurich and Göttingen from 1945 to 1952 . He received his doctorate in 1952 in Zurich with the thesis supervised by Leonhard von Muralt Geneva, the great powers and the federal religious parties 1571–1584 . In 1957, he completed his habilitation with the work Historiography and historical thinking in France 1789–1871 . Stadler taught at a girls' school for several years and took on a position as an assistant. From 1963 to 1970 he was an assistant professor at the University of Zurich, from 1967 to 1970 he was a full professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 1970 Stadler was a full professor of modern general and Swiss history at the University of Zurich. In 1993 he retired. As an academic teacher in Zurich, Stadler supervised around 100 dissertations. On the 150th anniversary of the founding of the University of Zurich in 1983, he published an extensive publication.

Immigration to Switzerland has increased since the 1980s. Stadler began to be politically active. Political appearances followed on the national holiday in 1991 and 1996 at the annual meeting for the group Action for an independent and neutral Switzerland , which advocated a restrictive refugee and immigration policy and a strict interpretation of neutrality.

Stadler published a biography of Karl Marx , which saw two German and one Italian editions between 1966 and 1971. He attached great importance to Marx in the 19th century. For him, Marx was only comparable to the prophet Mohammed . The most important works also included an extensive work on the Kulturkampf in Switzerland and a two-volume biography on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . A biography of the Italian politician Camillo Benso von Cavour was published in 2001. Stadler and his wife published a biography of the German historian Alfred Dove in 2008 . In 1980 he became a member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Geneva, the great powers and the federal religious parties 1571–1584 (= Zurich Contributions to Historical Studies . Vol. 15). J. Weiss, Affolter 1952 (= dissertation, University of Zurich, 1952).
  • Historiography and historical thinking in France 1789–1871. Report house, Zurich 1958 (= habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1958).
  • Karl Marx: Ideology and Politics (= personality and history. Vol. 40/41). Musterschmidt, Göttingen et al. 1966.
  • The Kulturkampf in Switzerland: Confederation and Catholic Church in the European area 1848–1888. Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7193-0928-2 .
  • Pestalozzi: Historical Biography. 2 volumes. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1988/1993, ISBN 3-85823-181-9 , ISBN 3-85823-390-0 .
  • Between powers, mighty and ideologies: Essays on European history. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-85823-302-1 .
  • Memoirs of the Modern Age. Reflections on remembered history. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-85823-571-7 .
  • Thinking about Switzerland. History that happened and happened. Studies and statements. Novalis, Schaffhausen 2001, ISBN 3-907160-76-2 .
  • Epochs in Swiss history. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-06014-1 .
  • Looking back at the modern age. Side lights on people and events. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-280-06090-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Jörg Fisch: Nekrolog Peter Stadler (1925–2012). In: Historische Zeitschrift Vol. 295 (2012), no. 3, pp. 868–874, here: p. 872. Cf. for example Peter Stadler: Swiss neutrality - a historical appreciation. Bern 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2012
Place of death Zurich