Victor Attinger

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Victor Attinger (born June 7, 1856 in Neuchâtel ; † June 5, 1927 at Chaumont ) was a Swiss photographer and publisher.

Life

Attinger opened one of the first color photography studios in Switzerland in 1889 and was a founding member of the Neuchâtel Société des Photographes. In 1915 he opened a cinematheque . His photo collection, comprising around five thousand negative plates , was discovered in 1984. Since 1898, Attinger has mainly worked as a publisher and photographer. Together with Charles Knapp , professor of geography in Neuchâtel, and the cartographer Maurice Borel (1860–1926), he published the Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland from 1900 to 1910 , which appeared in parallel in French ( Dictionnaire geographique de la Suisse ) and German. He also initiated the publication of the Historisch-Biographisches Lexikons der Schweiz (HBLS), which was also published in German and French from 1921 to 1934.

literature

  • Claude Attinger et al .: Victor Attinger, photographe, 1856-1927 . G. Attinger, Hauterive 1989, ISBN 2-88256-042-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Swiss Photo Foundation : Victor Attinger . In: Lexicon Photography . Retrieved January 5, 2010.
  2. ^ Daniel Girardin: Attinger, Victor. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Attinger, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1927
Place of death Chaumont