Wolfgang Friedrich von Mülinen
Wolfgang Friedrich von Mülinen (born December 25, 1863 in Bern ; † January 15, 1917 there ) was a historian and since 1896 associate professor of Swiss history at the University of Bern . He came from the von Mülinen patrician family in Bern .
Life
Like many of his ancestors , Wolfgang Friedrich von Mülinen was interested in history. His ancestor five generations before him, Friedrich von Mülinen (1706–1769), laid the foundation stone for the famous library and manuscript collection of the Mülinen, today in the Burgerbibliothek Bern . His great-grandfather, the Bernese mayor Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen (1760–1833), who was raised to the hereditary status of Austrian count in 1816 , and his grandfather Gottfried von Mülinen (1790–1840), officer and governor of the district of Nidau from 1823 to 1830, related , the basics for first handwritten genealogies of family ancestry.
Wolfgang Friedrich studied among others in Freiburg im Üechtland , Berlin and Bern and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1887. His dissertation is entitled History of the Swiss Mercenaries up to the Establishment of the First Standing Guard in 1497 . In 1896 he was appointed associate professor for Swiss history at the University of Bern. From the same year he was a member of the Burgerrat in Bern. From 1900 he headed the city and university library of Bern. Also from 1900 and until 1912 he was president of the Historical Society of the Canton of Bern, whose secretary he had been from 1885 to 1897. In his hometown of Bern he was president of the Zunftgesellschaft zu Schmieden from 1904 to 1912 .
As a historical researcher, he devoted himself in numerous works and source editions to the history of the city and republic of Bern from the Middle Ages to the early modern era, as an example of Bern's history 1191–1891 , published in the anniversary year 1891. As a university teacher, he supported his students in their historical research with the Access to the Mülinen family library, according to his student August Plüss, who later worked at the Bern State Archives , during his doctoral thesis on The Barons von Grünenberg in Kleinburgund . Under Wolfgang Friedrich von Mülinen's guidance as a doctoral supervisor, the work of Plüss has "remained the best monograph on an aristocratic family from Bern" in the judgment of posterity.
family
Wolfgang Friedrich was the son of Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen (1817–1887) and Sophie von Mutach (1828–1901). His father, a private scholar in the tradition of his forefathers, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 1884 for his tireless historical work . His siblings were the women's rights activist Helene (1850-1924) and the Bern forest inspector Hans Friedrich von Mülinen (1858-1936).
He and his wife Esther Irmengard von Hallwyl , whom he married in 1889, were the parents of Egbert von Mülinen (1896–1976).
literature
- Adolf Fluri et al .: In memory of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Friedrich von Mülinen. In: Leaves for Bernese history, art and antiquity. No. 12, 1917, pp. 1–55 (with catalog raisonné).
Web links
- Christian Müller (2): Mülinen, Wolfgang Friedrich von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annelies Hüssy: Mülinen, Friedrich von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Karl H. Flatt: State archivist Gottlieb Kurz, 1866–1952. In: Yearbook of the Oberaargau. 1965, p. 54 (PDF; 3.3 MB). Retrieved August 30, 2012.
- ↑ Christian Müller (2): Mülinen, Egbert Friedrich von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mülinen, Wolfgang Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | von Mülinen, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1917 |
| Place of death | Bern |