Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann

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Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann (approx. Between 1860 and 1880)
Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann (approx. Between 1880 and 1900)

Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann (born January 18, 1840 in Gelterkinden ; † May 26, 1914 in Basel ) was a Swiss historian and teacher .

Life

Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann was born on January 18, 1840 in Gelterkinden. He was one of nine children of Abel Burckhardt and Julia Veronika Burckhardt (née Miville), but not all of them reached adulthood. Burckhardt-Biedermann, I grew up in a Christian environment and kept his faith all his life. Burckhardt-Biedermann spent the first ten years of his life with his parents in the rectory in Gelterkinden, where his father had been a pastor since 1839 . He himself later described the parental household as tightly economically limited.

When Burckhardt-Biedermann switched to high school in 1850, he moved to Basel to live with his uncle Immanuel Stockmeyer and his aunt Esther Valerie Burckhardt. Here, too, he remained in a religious environment, because his uncle was a pastor in St. Martin's Church . Four years later the father became a senior helper in Basel, so that Burckhardt-Biedermann returned to the household of his parents and siblings. In the spring of 1858 Burckhardt-Biedermann began studying classical philology at the University of Basel , and after five semesters he moved to the University of Bonn. He spent the winter of 1861/62 in Berlin . Burckhardt-Biedermann returned home in 1862, where he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the rhetorician Caecilius and graduated magna cum laude .

After completing his studies, Burckhardt-Biedermann worked as a teacher at various schools in Basel, the subjects being varied. He taught a. a. Geography, history, German and French. In 1866 Burckhardt-Biedermann got his first permanent job at a public school, at the Realgymnasium . Two years later he got a job at the Gymnasium am Münsterplatz , where he initially taught various subjects. Later he taught only German, Latin and Greek.

On July 11, 1867, he married Clara Biedermann (born March 24, 1845) from Zurich , daughter of the Zurich theology professor Alois Emanuel Biedermann (1819–1885), with whom he had two sons, Paul and Max Burckhardt. Of these, he in turn had a total of six grandchildren. Clara and Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann remained married for 36 years until Clara died on March 12, 1903 after a long illness. After the death of his wife, Burckhardt-Biedermann moved in with his younger son Max and his wife Anna Maria Ecklin.   

In 1905 Burckhardt-Biedermann had to give up his teaching post for health reasons due to neurasthenia . In his newfound free time, he began to concentrate on his former part-time work, archaeological studies. He dealt intensively with Augusta Raurica .

Burckhardt-Biedermann died on May 26, 1914 at the age of 74.

Burckhardt-Biedermann's estate did not come to the Basel University Library until 1956 , together with the estate of his son Paul Burckhardt (1873–1956) and other family members. The handover took place through the mediation of Erich Gruner , who was married to a granddaughter of Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann.

Memberships

During his time as a teacher, Burckhardt-Biedermann was a member of the teachers 'association and the gymnastics teachers' association. In the course of his archaeological studies he dealt intensively with Augusta Raurica, which is why he was also appointed to the Commission for the Conservation of Historical Art Monuments . He was also a corresponding member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute in Rome . Burckhardt-Biedermann was significantly involved in the creation of the Vindonissa Museum . B. on January 2, 1907, an expert opinion on the scientific value of the Vindonissa collection for the attention of the Federal Council . When the Vindonissa Museum opened on April 28, 1912, the Vindonissa Society made him an honorary member.

Group picture (photograph around 1889), teacher at the Upper High School in Basel, from left to right, top: Achilles Burckhardt, Fritz Tschopp, Albert Burckhardt , Rudolf Stähelin, Rudolf Kögel, Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann, Emanuel Probst, Hans Theodor Plüss ; below: Johann Jakob Oeri, Carl Grob, Jakob Mähly , Rector Fritz Burckhardt, Gustav Soldan, Felix Bertholet, Albert Riggenbach

Publications (selection)

Although trained as a classical philologist, Burckhardt-Biedermann hardly published in this area after completing his dissertation. His interests, which he indulged in alongside his school office, went in other directions. His first monograph deals with his own institution, the history of the high school in Basel. He also dealt with the Reformation and the humanism of his hometown and published, for example, a study on Bonifacius Amerbach and his relationship to the recently introduced Reformation in Basel. For this work he received an honorary doctorate in theology in 1910 on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the University of Basel . Most of Burckhardt-Biedermann's publications, on the other hand, deal with archeology, especially with Augusta Raurica , where he led the excavations since 1878 on behalf of the historical and antiquarian society in Basel - which acquired the archaeologically valuable site in 1884 - for example at the ancient one City wall or at the theater, as well as research on the Kaiseraugst castle .

The following selection of publications is based on a directory written by Burckhardt-Biedermann himself:

  • Caecili rhetoris fragmenta . Diss. Basel 1863.
  • To understand the Homerid Hymn on Hermes . In: Fleckeisen's year books for classical philology 2 (1868), pp. 737–749.
  • The high school institutions of Basel . In: Annual issue of the Swiss Association. Gymnasiallehrer 4 (1872), pp. 51-83.
  • The year of the Klingental dance of death in Kleinbasel . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Story 2 (1877), pp. 318-323.
  • The Homerid Hymn to the Delian Apollo and its relationship to the Delian worship of the gods . In: Invitation to the graduation ceremony of the pedagogy 1878, pp. 1–24.
  • The Roman theater at Augusta Raurica . In: Communications of the histor. and antiquarian. Gesellschaft zu Basel NF 2 (1882), pp. 1–31.
  • Over the city wall in Augusta Raurica . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Altertumskunde 4 (1883), pp. 5-7.
  • About the Basler Totentänze (read out in the historical and antiquarian society on January 27, 1876, but completely revised for printing). In: Contributions to patriotic history 9 (1882), pp. 39–92.
  • Roman finds in Baselaugst . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Altertumskunde 5 (1884), pp. 41-43.
  • Helvetia under the Romans . In: Basler Neujahrsblatt 65 (1887), pp. 1–36.
  • History of the high school in Basel, 1589-1889. For the third secular celebration on behalf of the school authorities, written by Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann. Basel: Birkhäuser 1889.
  • Destruction and preservation of the Roman ruins at Augst . In: Basler Jahrbuch 1892, pp. 36–67.
  • Hans Amerbach and his family . In: Historical festival book for the Basel unification celebration . Basel: Reich 1892, pp. 73–114.
  • Roman things in Kaiseraugst (fort), the Basler Hardt (watchtower, building near the Auhofe) and in Baselaugst (temple on Schönenbühl) . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Altertumskunde 7 (1893), pp. 230-238 with plates XV and XVI.
  • About Oekolampads person and effectiveness . In: Theologische Zeitschrift aus der Schweiz (1893), pp. 27–40 and 81–92.
  • Bonifacius Amerbach and the Reformation . Basel: R. Reich 1894.
  • Basel's first reformation mandate . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Story 7 (1894), pp. 117-126.
  • Oldest Roman settlement in Basel . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Altertumskunde 7 (1895), pp. 482-490.
  • Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann:  Vischer, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 31-64.
  • The renovation of the University of Basel in the years 1529 to 1539 . In: Contributions to patriotic history 14 (1896), pp. 401–487.
  • The road over the upper Hauenstein in the Basler Jura. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 1, 1902, pp. 1–52. ( Digitized version )
  • A Tiberius inscription by Windisch . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Antiquity, NF 3 (1902), pp. 237–244.
  • Roman inscription on the upper Hauenstein. In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Antiquity, NF 3 (1902), pp. 245–247.
  • The road over the upper Hauenstein in the Basler Jura . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 1 (1902), pp. 1–51 and 153–201.
  • Excavations of the historical and antiquarian society of Basel in the area of ​​Basel- and Kaiseraugst, Basel and the surrounding area during the years 1877-1902 . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 2 (1903), pp. 81–105. ( Digitized version )
  • About the time and occasion of the leaflet: Luther as Hercules Germanicus . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 4 (1905), pp. 38–44.
  • Excavation in Kaiseraugst . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Antiquity, NF 8 (1906), pp. 188–194.
  • The Roman Border Guard in Switzerland (lecture on the Association Day of the South and West German Associations for Roman-German Research in Basel): Excerpt from the report on the 7th Association Day (1906), pp. 51–54.
  • The St. Wolfgang fort near Balsthal . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Antiquities NF 8 (1906), pp. 279–285.
  • Roman forts on the Upper Rhine at the time of Diocletian . In: Westdeutsche Zeitschrift 25 (1906), pp. 131–178.
  • The Roman city fortifications by Augusta Raurica (lecture on the Association Day of the South and West German Associations for Roman-German Research in Heidelberg 1907): Excerpt from the report on the 8th Association Day (1908), pp. 38–39.
  • Hieronymus Gantius . In: Zwingliana 2 (1908), pp. 236-243.
  • Twice inscribed stone by Augst . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 8 (1909), pp. 170–177.
  • The residences of the Rauriks and the establishment of their colony . In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine 26 (1909), pp. 391-429.
  • Roman rooms and hypocausts in Baselaugst . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Antiquities NF 11 (1909), pp. 200-214.
  • Statistics of Celtic, Roman, early Germanic antiquities in the canton of Basel (excluding the area of ​​the city of Basel and Äugst) . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 9 (1910), pp. 347–390.
  • The Augusta Raurica colony, its constitution and its territory . Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn 1910.
  • City wall and gate in the southeast of Augusta Raurica . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 13 (1914), pp. 363–376.
  • Wooden sleepers on the way over the upper Hauenstein in the Basler Jura . In: Anzeiger für Schweiz. Antiquity, NF 16 (1914), pp. 119–123.
  • Counterfeiters in Augusta Raurica . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 14 (1915), pp. 1–10.

literature

  • In memory of Dr. Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann, born January 18, 1840, died May 26, 1914 . Buchdruckerei Kreis, Basel 1914.
  • Augusta Raurica. A journey of discovery through time = Archeology of Switzerland 26 (2003), No. 2, p. 37.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University Library Basel, NL 14, Sign. IV 3
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g University Library Basel, NL 14, Sign. IV 4
  3. ↑ Thomas K. Kuhn : Stockmeyer, Immanuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  4. ↑ a b c Stroux page on Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann's family (accessed December 31, 2016)
  5. ↑ In memory of Dr. Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann, born January 18, 1840, died May 26, 1914 . Buchdruckerei Kreis, Basel 1914
  6. ↑ a b c Basel University Library, NL 14, Sign. IV 4a
  7. ^ A b My publications: handwritten directory by Dr. Theophil Burckhardt Biedermann. Retrieved December 15, 2016 .
  8. ^ Report on the administration of the public library of the University of Basel in 1956, p. 8f. ( Digitized version )
  9. ↑ Augusta Raurica's website (accessed January 2, 2017)
  10. ↑ Alex R. Furger: Augusta Raurica. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt-Biedermann, Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelterkinden
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1914
Place of death Basel