Wilhelm Oechsli (6 October 1851,

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– 26 April 1919) was a Swiss historian. Oechsli studied theology and history at

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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

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. 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

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Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919)
1851 births 1919 deaths 19th-century Swiss historians Swiss male writers Academic staff of ETH Zurich 20th-century Swiss historians {{Switzerland-historian-stub