Herbert Lüthy
Herbert Lüthy ( born January 15, 1918 in Basel, † November 16, 2002 ) was a Swiss historian.
Life
Born in 1918 in Basel as the fifth son of India missionary Ernst Lüthy - Dettwyler, Herbert Lüthy studied after high school (1937, Canton St. Gallen School ) history, Romance languages and French literature in Paris, Zurich and Geneva. In 1942 he received his PhD under Hans Nabholz in Zurich. It was followed by various economic history and journalism. 1946-1958 lived Lüthy as a freelance journalist and historian, in Paris. After his habilitation in 1958, he was appointed Professor of General and Swiss History in German language at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; In 1971 he moved to the University of Basel, where he remained active until his retirement in 1980. After that, he was among other things a board member of the Association for Issue of Schweizer Monatshefte, had written for it since the 1960s, various items such as the essay "Switzerland as the antithesis " ( 1961). For his outstanding scientific achievements Lüthy was honored several times. The awarded to him by the University of Geneva in 1968, he gave an honorary doctorate in 1977 in protest after they had appointed the University sociologist Jean Ziegler as a full professor. From 1975 to 1979 Lüthy was a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Lüthy died in November 2002 in Basel; he was married and the father of two sons.
Journalistic and scientific work
From 1942 to 1944 Herbert Lüthy wrote among other things, the weekly chronicle of World War II for the St. Galler Tageblatt. In his Paris period he was twice during each year of a correspondent of the Zurich indeed; from 1949 he increasingly wrote for prestigious international journals ( The month, Berlin; Preuves, Paris Encounter, London, Commentary, New York, etc.). In 1954 he published the book " French clocks go differently ", which became one of the most important publications of a foreigner to the French post-war period. With his translation of selected essays of Michel de Montaigne (1953 ) he made this author in the German cultural area better known. In the years 1959 and 1961 appeared in Paris Lüthy's two-volume banking and financial historical standard work La Banque Protestant en France de la Revocation de l' EDIT de Nantes à la Révolution ( 1685-1794 ).
Werkausgabe
The factory output Herbert Lüthy book publishing NZZ Libro is applied to seven volumes. The first two volumes contain the little newsreels from the St. Galler Tageblatt under the title Five minutes after twelve and French clocks are different. Volumes III and IV contain essays with broad international and Swiss subject from 1940 to 1990. Follow in Volume V works from the years 1941-1990, dealing with France, as well as a complete bibliography of Lüthy's work. The factory output concludes with the two-volume Banque Protestant en France edition. In order to facilitate access to the work, each volume has been preceded by an introduction, and find yourself in a detailed appendix notes and explanatory comments which facilitate the understanding of the text and make it possible to classify the different texts in the historical and political context.