Samuel Friedrich Lüthardt

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Samuel Friedrich Lüthardt , also Luthardt (partly also from Luthardt ; born January 13, 1767 in Bern , † September 12, 1823 ibid) was a Swiss politician and lawyer .

Life

Lüthardt came from a second-rate family of aristocrats in Bern, to which not all state offices were open. Accordingly, Lüthardt should become a lawyer. He studied law in Bern and at the University of Göttingen . He obtained this from, among others, Albrecht Rengger and Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth . Lüthardt stood out during his studies due to his diligence and a good knowledge of the law and was born in Göttingen in 1787 with the dissertation De Praescriptionis Natura, Fundamento, Et Ivre In Statv Civili; Qvaedam Exhibens for Dr. iur. PhD . At the end of his studies he went to Vaud in 1788 to learn the legal and business language of French-speaking Switzerland.

Lüthardt settled in Bern around 1790, where he initially found a brief job with an older lawyer , but from 1793 onwards he worked as a freelance lawyer with great success. In 1795 he was one of the co-founders of a private poor institution in Bern, and in 1798 he became procurator . He should become one of the Helvetic politicians . During the turmoil of 1798, he first became a member of the Extraordinary Assembly at the end of January and a member of the Provisional Government on March 4th. In this function he was sent to Paris . In 1799 he was a member of the highest Helvetian court and became a senator. After the dissolution of the Senate, he became a member of the legislative authority in 1800 and for a short time in 1802 head of the Swiss judiciary. During the mediation phase, he was the Bernese Grand Councilor. At this time he was considered a moderate patriot. Albrecht Rengger stated: "Under the Helvetic Republic, L. was considered an aristocrat, under the Mediation Constitution as moderate, since the Restoration as a democrat, and yet he was always the same." He was also a promoter of the Bern judiciary and public welfare.

Lüthardt increasingly withdrew into private life. In 1814 he positioned himself as an opponent of the reintegration of the Aargau and Vaud into Bern. In addition, he dealt with the natural sciences. To do this, he supported the mechanic Ulrich Schenk, who manufactured astronomical and physical measuring instruments. When he died, he took over his company and continued to run it.

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  1. ↑ Dissertatio Inavgvralis Philosophico-Ivridica De Praescriptionis Natura, Fundamento, Et Ivre In Statv Civili; Qvaedam Exhibens , Dieterich, Göttingen 1787.
  2. ^ Albrecht Rengger : Dr. Samuel Lüthardt from Bern . In: Helvetica. Memorabilia for the XXII Free States of the Swiss Confederation , Volume 2, Aarau and Bern 1826, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Lüthardt, Samuel Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luthardt, Samuel Friedrich; Luthardt, Samuel Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1823
Place of death Bern