Wilhelm Oechsli
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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. He tried to popularize critical historiography, challenging the legendary traditions about the Swiss national past:
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Published: 1896
Superior document: Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich 24,3
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Published: 1903
Superior document: Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich 26,1