Charles Guillaume Loys de Bochat (born 11 December 1695 in

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...

, died 4 April 1754, also in Lausanne) was an 18th-century Swiss jurist and antiquarian (Lausanne at the time was a subject territory controlled by

Berne Bern () or Berne; in other Swiss languages, gsw, Bärn ; frp, Bèrna ; it, Berna ; rm, Berna is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city" (in german: Bundesstadt, link=no, french: ville fédérale ...

). He studied theology in

Basle , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS), ...

, which he interrupted for health reasons, and later changed his subject to law, in which he graduated in 1717. He became professor of law in Lausanne in 1718, but he was granted leave to travel for three years, which he spent in Halle, in Leyden and in France. From 1721, he taught law at the Lausanne Academy, where he acted as rector from 1727 to 1730. In 1738, he proposed to transform the academy into a full university, without success. Loys de Bochat is best known for his major work, ''Mémoires critiques pour servir d'Eclaircissemens sur divers points de l'Histoire ancienne de la Suisse'', which appeared in three volumes in 1747-1749. This work is dedicated to examining the

early history of Switzerland The early history of Switzerland begins with the earliest settlements up to the beginning of Habsburg rule, which in 1291 gave rise to the independence movement in the central cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden and the growth of the Old Sw ...

, especially the Gaulish Helvetii, and their legacy in Swiss toponymy.

Tomb

His tomb is in the

ambulatory The ambulatory ( la, ambulatorium, ‘walking place’) is the covered passage around a cloister or the processional way around the east end of a cathedral or large church and behind the high altar. The first ambulatory was in France in the 11th ...

of the

Lausanne Cathedral The Cathedral of Notre Dame of Lausanne is a church located in the city of Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud. History Construction of the cathedral began as ea ...

References

* *Ph. Meylan, ''Jean Barbeyrac (1674-1744) et les débuts de l'enseignement du droit dans l'ancienne Académie de Lausanne'', 1937, 159-171. *F. Elsener, ''Die Schweizer Rechtsschulen vom 16. bis 19. Jahrhundert, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Privatrechts'', 1975, 226-229. *J.-F. Poudret et al., ''L'enseignement du droit à l'Académie de Lausanne aux XVIIIe-XIXe s.'', 1987, 29-38. {{DEFAULTSORT:Loys De Bochat, Charles Guillaume Academic staff of the University of Lausanne Swiss jurists 1695 births 1754 deaths