Rudolf Jaun

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Rudolf Jaun (born November 3, 1948 in Meiringen ) is a Swiss military historian .

Life

Jaun attended the Central Switzerland Traffic School Lucerne (diploma) and the AKAD Zurich (Matura B). From 1969 to 1972 he was an assistant in the Swiss Bank Corporation . From 1971 to 1979 he studied general history as well as constitutional law and sociology at the University of Zurich . He was also a part-time teacher at Vocational School III in Zurich. In 1979 he acquired the licentiate , and in 1984 he was at Rudolf Brown to Dr. phil. PhD.

Then he was senior assistant and lecturer at the history seminar and worked on research projects (including the Swiss General Staff ) of the Swiss National Science Foundation . In 1989 he stayed at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. From 1994 he took on teaching positions in St. Gallen , Freiburg im Üechtland and Zurich. In 1995 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich and received the Venia legendi for modern history with a special focus on military history.

In 1998, as Colonel, he became head of the VBS and Army Archives Service at the Federal Military Library . In 2003 he received a titular professorship for modern history and military history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich. He has been retired since 2013. From 2005 to 2012 he was also a full-time lecturer and head of the Department of Military History at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich .

He is u. a. Vice President of the Swiss Association for Military History and Science .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Family and personal names in Oberhasli (= series of publications on local history and the history of the Hasli landscape ). Brügger, Meiringen 1981.
  • The Federal General Staff Corps 1804–74. A collective biographical study (= The Swiss General Staff , Volume 3). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-7190-0843-6 .
  • Management and workforce. Scientificization, Americanization and Rationalization of Employment Relationships in Switzerland, 1873–1959 . Chronos, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-905278-08-1 .
  • The Swiss General Staff Corps 1875–1945. A collective biographical study (= The Swiss General Staff , Volume 8). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-7190-1144-5 .
  • Prussia before your eyes. The Swiss officer corps in the military and social change of the fin de siècle . Chronos, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-905313-11-1 .

Editorships

  • with Sebastian Brändli, David Gugerli , Ulrich Pfister: Switzerland in Transition. Studies on recent social history. Festschrift for Rudolf Braun on his 60th birthday . Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-7190-1058-9 .
  • with Brigitte Studer: female - male, gender relations in Switzerland. Jurisprudence, Discourse, Practices (= Swiss Society for Economic and Social History , Volume 13). Chronos, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-905311-81-X .
  • with Hans-Jörg Gilomen , Margrit Müller, Béatrice Veyrassat: Innovations. Requirements and consequences - driving forces and resistance (= Swiss Society for Economic and Social History , Volume 17). Chronos, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-0340-0518-0 .
  • with Sacha Zala : Directory of the sources on Swiss military history. 1848-2000 . Swiss Federal Archives , Bern 2004–2006.
  • with Titus Meier: 100 years of the military academy at the ETH Zurich - from military school to military academy, 1911–2011 (= MILAK publication , no. 13). MILAK, Birmensdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-9523186-6-9 .
  • with David Rieder: Swiss Armaments. Politics, Procurement and Industry in the 20th Century (= Ares Series , Volume 1). Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-03919-279-3 .
  • with Michael M. Olsansky, Sandrine Picaud-Monnerat, Adrian Wettstein: At the front and behind the front. The First World War and its battlefields (= Ares series , Volume 2). Here and now, Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-03919-345-5 .

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