Wilhelm Oechsli Explained

Wilhelm Oechsli (6 October 1851, Riesbach – 26 April 1919) was a Swiss historian.

Oechsli studied theology and history at Berlin and Zürich, under Theodor Mommsen among others. In 1887 he took up the new chair of Swiss history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. From 1893 to 1919 he was professor of history at the University of Zürich.^[1] He tried to popularize critical historiography, challenging the legendary traditions about the Swiss national past:

Works

• Die Anfänge der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft zur sechsten Säkularfeier des ersten ewigen Bundes vom 1. August 1291, Zürich: Ulrich, 1891.
• Geschichte der Schweiz im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert, 2 vols, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1903
• History of Switzerland, 1499–1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul.^[2]

External links

• • Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919)

Notes and References

1. [James Murray Luck]
2. Murry, John Middleton. John Middleton Murry. Review of History of Switzerland by Wilhelm Oechsli. The Nation and the Athenæum. 32, Part 1. 4824. October 14, 1922. 58–59.