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Helvetic Society

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The Helvetische Gesellschaft / Société Helvétique, or Helvetic Society as it is known in English, was a patriotic society and the first Swiss reform society. [1]

27 relations: Aarau, Bernoulli family, Charles Monnard, Charles Victor de Bonstetten, Christian von Mechel, Emile, or On Education, Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, Hans Caspar Hirzel, Heinrich Zschokke, Helvetic Republic, Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler, Isaak Iselin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Johann Jakob Breitinger, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Olten, Reform, Salomon Gessner, Schinznach-Dorf, Swiss Federal Constitution, Switzerland, Urs Glutz von Blotzheim.

Aarau

Aarau (locally) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau.

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Bernoulli family

The Bernoulli family of Basel is a patrician family, notable for having produced eight mathematically gifted academics who, between them, contributed to the foundations of applied mathematics and physics during the early modern period.

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Charles Monnard

Charles Monnard (17 January 1790, in Bern – 13 January 1865, in Bonn) was a Swiss historian.

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Charles Victor de Bonstetten

Charles Victor de Bonstetten (Karl Viktor von Bonstetten; 3 September 17453 February 1832) was a Swiss liberal writer.

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Christian von Mechel

Christian von Mechel (4 April 1737 in Basel; † 11 April 1817 in Berlin) was a Swiss engraver, publisher and art dealer.

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Emile, or On Education

Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings.

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Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel

Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (28 June 1736 – 1 May 1809) was a French-German writer and translator, whose texts were put to music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert.

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Hans Caspar Hirzel

Hans Caspar Hirzel (21 March 1725 - 18 February 1803), also known or spelt as - Herzil John Caspar, Kaspar Hirzel, Johann Kasper Herzel, or John Kaspar Hirzel -, was an eminent Swiss physician and writer on rural economy.

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Heinrich Zschokke

Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (22 March 177127 June 1848) was a German, later Swiss, author and reformer.

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Helvetic Republic

In Swiss history, the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803) represented an early attempt to impose a central authority over Switzerland, which until then had consisted of self-governing cantons united by a loose military alliance (and ruling over subject territories such as Vaud).

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Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler

Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (August 17, 1780 – March 6, 1866) was a Swiss physician, politician, and philosopher.

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Isaak Iselin

Isaak Iselin (7 March 1728 in Basel – 15 July 1782 in Basel) was a Swiss philosopher of history and politics.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (January 12, 1746 – February 17, 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.

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Johann Jakob Bodmer

Johann Jakob Bodmer (19 July 16982 January 1783) was a Swiss author, academic, critic and poet.

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Johann Jakob Breitinger

Johann Jakob Breitinger (1 March 1701 in Zürich; 14 December 1776) was a Swiss philologist and author.

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Johann Kaspar Bluntschli

Johann Caspar (also Kaspar) Bluntschli (7 March 1808 – 21 October 1881) was a Swiss jurist and politician.

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Johann Kaspar Lavater

Johann Kaspar (or Caspar) Lavater (15 November 1741 – 2 January 1801) was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian.

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Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli

Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli (16 December 1716 - 15 January 1780) was a Swiss agronomist who founded the Economic Society of Berne in 1758.

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Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg

Ludwig Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (6 January 1731, Frankfurt am Main – 20 May 1795, Ludwigsburg), was the third son of Duke Karl Alexander and Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis (11 August 1706) – 1 February 1756).

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Olten

Olten is a town in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland and capital of the district of the same name.

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Reform

Reform (reformo) means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.

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Salomon Gessner

Salomon Gessner (1 April 1730 – 2 March 1788) was a Swiss painter and poet.

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Schinznach-Dorf

Schinznach-Dorf is a former municipality in the district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Swiss Federal Constitution

The Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 10, Bundesverfassung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft (BV), Constitution fédérale de la Confédération suisse (Cst.), Costituzione federale della Confederazione Svizzera (Cost.), Constituziun federala da la Confederaziun svizra) of 18 April 1999 (SR 101) is the third and current federal constitution of Switzerland.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Urs Glutz von Blotzheim

Urs Glutz von Blotzheim (20 October 1751–8 December 1816) was a Swiss military officer and politician.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetic_Society

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