Johannes Dierauer (20 March 1842 – 14 March 1920) was a Swiss historian and librarian. He taught history classes at the Cantonal School in

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from 1868 to 1907 and, from 1874 to 1920, served as the head of the City Library of St. Gallen.

Biography

Dierauer was born in

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on 20 March 1842 to Jakob Dierauer and Engelina Hohl. His father was a farmer whose family belonged to Berneck's historic

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. He studied history at the universities of

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and

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, receiving his doctorate at Zürich in 1868 with a dissertation on

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, titled ''Beiträge zu einer kritischen Geschichte Trajans''. From 1868 to 1907 he taught classes in history at the cantonal school in St. Gallen, and from 1874 onward, was head of the Stadtbibliothek Vadiana, the city library in St. Gallen. Gedenktafel Johannes Dierauer Rathaus Berneck

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He was married to Lisette Brunner of

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, with whom he had two daughters. Dierauer died in

on 14 March 1920.

Published works

His magnum opus was a history of the

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, ''Geschichte der schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft'', published in five volumes from 1887 to 1917. Other noted writings by Dierauer are: * ''Müller-Friedberg; Lebensbild eines schweizerischen Staatsmannes (1755–1836)'' (as editor, 1885) – Karl von Müller-Friedberg; Life of a Swiss statesman (1755–1836). * ''Ernst Götzinger : ein Lebensbild'' (1897) – Biography of

Ernst Götzinger Ernst Götzinger (23 September 1837, in Schaffhausen – 10 August 1896, in St. Gallen) was a Swiss Germanist and historian. He was the son of philologist Maximilian Wilhelm Götzinger (1799–1856). He studied philology at the University of ...

. * ''Die Befreiung des Rheintals 1798'' (1898) – The liberation of the

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in 1798. * ''Chronik der Stadt Zürich'' (as editor, 1900) – Chronicle of the city of Zürich. * ''Der Kanton St. Gallen in der Regenerationszeit (1831–1840)'' (1902) – The

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in the regeneration period (1831–1840). * ''Politische Geschichte des Kantons St. Gallen, 1803–1903'' (1904) – Political history of the canton of St. Gallen, 1803–1903. * ''Der Zug der Schweden gegen Konstanz 1633. Eine Verletzung der schweizerischen Neutralität im Dreißigjährigen Kriege'' (1906) – Swedish troops at

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, 1633; a violation of Swiss neutrality in the

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. He was the author of 18 biographies in the ''

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References

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