Visit to Schleitheim

Jacques Huber was born in the 13th of October 1867 in Schleitheim, Kanton Schaffhausen, a small and lovely village on the border between Switzerland and Germany. His father, the Minister (Pfarrer) Johann Rudolf Emanuel Huber (1835-1914), and mother Sophie Catherine Vetter (1835-1927) lived with their family in this village until 1869, then moving to the city of Schaffhausen.

On the 31st of August 2014 we visited the village and its Archives and Museum Schleitheimertal. Both are managed by Mr. Willi Bächtold with extreme zeal and competence. We learned a lot in these well organized institutions. We thank to Mr. Bächtold for his warm welcome and support.

At the Gemeindearchiv we have checked the first records of Huber's life: his birth record made by the midwife (Hebamme) Fida Pletscher and the baptism record 14 days after his birth. To know more about the Gemeindearchiv Schleitheim, please click here.

 

 

The Reformed Church in Schleitheim, where the father of Jacques Huber, Pfarrer Johannes Rudolf Emanuel Huber, was the Vicar until 1869.

The Pfarrhaus in Schleitheim, where Jacques Huber probably spent his first years of life.

The Museum Schleitheimertal is located in an ancient school. Nowadays the building is the place where the history of the village is well presented and preserved.

Ms. Mürra Zabel, Mr. Nelson Sanjad and Mr. Willi Bächtold, Gemeindearchiv Schleitheim, August 2014.

Birth record of Jacques Huber by the midwife Fida Pletscher (sixth line).

Baptism record of Jacques (Jakobus) Huber on October 27, 1867 (seventh line).

Jacques Huber's oeuvre updated

Some works of Jacques Huber were recently discovered at the Staatsarchiv des Kantons Basel-Stadt: six popular science texts and one important report on the International Exhibition of Turin held in 1911. Currently are recorded 106 published works. Please, check the updated numbers below.

To access the complete list of Huber’s works, please click here. All the references were checked (only two missing among 106). It is possible to find more works in Brazilian and European newspapers and magazines. If you find some mistake or have more information to improve the list, please contact us using the form on the right.

These data are part of an ongoing research. Please, strictly observe the laws of copyright and the correct standards to quote or refer to this blog.


Table 1. Category of the works published by J. Huber.

Publication	Quantity
Scientific articles/works in journals	54
Popular science works	17
Short communications	14
Reports	11
Books	5
Annals	4
Map	1
Total	106

Table 2. Journals where J. Huber published.

Journals	Quantity
Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia (Brazil)	30
Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier (Switzerland)	5
Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (France)	3
Botanisches Centralblatt (Germany)	2
Journal de Botanique (France)	2
Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Septième Série, Botanique (France)	1
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution (United States)	1
Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles (Switzerland)	1
Berichte der Schweizerischen Botanischen Gesellschaft (Switzerland)	1
Biologischen Centralblatt (Germany)	1
Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève (Switzerland)	2
Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences (France)	1
Dr. A. Petermann‘s Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes‘ Geographischer Anstalt (Germany)	1
La Géographie (France)	1
Le Globe (Switzerland)	1
Revue des Cultures Coloniales (France)	1
Total	54