Virgile Rossel
Virgile Rossel (born March 19, 1858 in Tramelan , Canton Bern ; † May 29, 1933 in Lausanne ; entitled to live in Tramelan) was a Swiss lawyer , politician ( FDP ) and author .
biography
The son of the farmer and mayor Julien Rossel graduated from the Matura on Literargymnasium in Porrentruy and studied jurisprudence and literature at the universities of Leipzig , Strasbourg , Bern , where he also received his doctorate in 1879, and Paris . He was admitted to the bar and opened a law firm in Courtelary in 1881 .
From 1883 to 1912 he was associate professor of French law at the University of Bern, which he headed as rector in 1894 and 1908 . After the parliamentary elections in 1896 , he was a member of the National Council until 1912 (1909/10 as President of the National Council ). During this time he also worked as a co-author of the Swiss Civil Code .
From 1912 Rossel worked as a federal judge at the 2nd civil department, and in 1929/30 he presided over the federal court. In 1932 he resigned and was replaced by his son Jean Rossel .
Rossel wrote fiction, literary historical and historical writings, for example an overview of the work of Eugène Rambert . In 1909 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva .
literature
- Mylène Roland: Virgile Rossel . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse. Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1524 f. (French)
- Roland Stähli: Virgile Rossel, poet of the mountains . In: the Alps . No. 8 , 2008, p. 45 (available online).
Web links
- Anne Beuchat-Bessire, Catherine Krüttli: Rossel, Virgile. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emma Chatelain: Rossel, Virgile (1858-1933). In: Dictionnaire du Jura. July 28, 2010, accessed March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Virgile Rossel: Eugène Rambert, sa vie, son temps, son œuvre. Payot, Lausanne 1917. Book review by Albert Chérel in: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France . Volume 26, No. 4, 1919, pp. 629-631, JSTOR 40518217 .
- ^ Rossel Virgile 1858–1933 , Federal Supreme Court website, accessed March 24, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rossel, Virgile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss lawyer, politician and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tramelan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1933 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |